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All mankind is one of these two cowards--either to wish to die when he should live, or live when be should die. - [Cowards] Despair, thou hast the noblest issues of all ill, which frailty brings us to; for to be worse we fear not, and who cannot lose is ever a frank gamester. - [Despair] He that writes Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than is friends; there's not a guest But will find something wanting or ill-drested. - [Authorship] Honest designs Justly resemble our devotions, Which we must pay and wait for the reward. - [Design] Pity is love when grown into excess. - [Pity] They that do an act that does deserve requital pay first themselves the stock of such content. - [Generosity]
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