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Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.
Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.
A fair face may make a foul bargain.
A fair face may make a foul bargain.
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we
cannot complain.
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we
cannot complain.
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
