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He enters the port with a full sail.
He enters the port with a full sail.
Life like an empty dream flits by.
Life like an empty dream flits by.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.
All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.
Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
So many men in Court and so many strangers.
So many men in Court and so many strangers.
For violent fires soon burn out themselves.
For violent fires soon burn out themselves.