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Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
To what they were before.
Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
To what they were before.
In sports and journeys men are knowne.
In sports and journeys men are knowne.
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
Facts are stubborn things.
Facts are stubborn things.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
I hate all children of precocious talent.
I hate all children of precocious talent.
