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Craft against craft makes no living.
Craft against craft makes no living.
The higher our position the more modestly should we behave.
The higher our position the more modestly should we behave.
May everything he treads upon become a rose!
May everything he treads upon become a rose!
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of
a friend.
You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of
a friend.
That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a read more
That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of his own,
Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
A City that parlies is half gotten.
A City that parlies is half gotten.
