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 Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
 [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]  
 Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
 [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.] 
 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.
 Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's 
three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.  
 Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's 
three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale. 
 At whose sight, like the sun,
 All others with diminish'd lustre shone.  
 At whose sight, like the sun,
 All others with diminish'd lustre shone. 
Our similarities are different.
Our similarities are different.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
 And but two ways are offered to our will,
 Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
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 And but two ways are offered to our will,
 Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
  The problem still for us and all of human race. 
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?