All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
タグ: die, men, good, best
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
タグ: brainy, will, never, soul
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
タグ: honest, honest-man, necessity, man
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
タグ: root, worst, evil, poverty
Nothing’s so partial as the laws of fate, Erecting blockheads to suppress the great. Sir Francis Drake the Spanish plate-fleet won; He had been a pirate if he had got none. Sir Walter Raleigh strove, but missed the plate, And therefore died a traitor to the State. Endeavour bears a value more or less, Just as ’tis recommended by success: The lucky coxcomb ev’ry man will prize, And prosp’rous actions always pass for wise.
タグ: success
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