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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.
When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a read more
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and
drained.
Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
