Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

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.

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.

But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.

And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.

The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.

The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.

The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.

Should banded unions persecute
Opinions, and induce a time
When single thought is civil crime,
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Should banded unions persecute
Opinions, and induce a time
When single thought is civil crime,
And individual freedom mute,
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Then waft me from the harbour's mouth,
Wild wind, I seek a warmer sky.