Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

Others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches;
And most of sterling worth is what
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Others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches;
And most of sterling worth is what
Our own experience preaches.

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with
thoughts.

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with
thoughts.

Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.

Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy
pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the read more

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy
pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others,
dissatisfied with our own.]

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand
griefes prove.

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand
griefes prove.

Who gives to all, denies all.

Who gives to all, denies all.

One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]

One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]