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They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
Our similarities are different.
Our similarities are different.
It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce:
It's fitter being sane than read more
It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce:
It's fitter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
That, after Last, returns the First,
Though a wide compass round be fetched;
That what began best, can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
How God ever brings like to like.
How God ever brings like to like.
There are fagots and fagots.
[Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
There are fagots and fagots.
[Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
art any one of read more
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou
art any one of the multitude may be.
[Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse:
Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.]
