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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your read more
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Love is the true price of love.
Love is the true price of love.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
Or wherefore trace, from what slight cause
Its source one tyrant passion draws,
Till mastering all within.
Or wherefore trace, from what slight cause
Its source one tyrant passion draws,
Till mastering all within.
Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.
Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.
As the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him read more
As the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him to think what kind of bird it is,
That sings so delicately clear, and make
Conjecture of the plumage and the form.
An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
