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"Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise"

"A willing mind makes a hard journey easy"

"Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful"

The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt

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"Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise."

"Let us love temperately, things violent last not."

"They are Both famous Laws indeed"

"Plays have their fates, not as in their true sense They're understood, but as the influence Of idle custom, madly works upon The dross of many tongu'd opinion"

"For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty"

"He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself"

"Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue"

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."

"He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself."

"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."

"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here"