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How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Albany at I, iv) Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii) Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii) O most lame and impotent conclusion! - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at II, i) Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies. - Herbert Spencer, Sociology The evening shows the day, and death crowns life. - John Webster, A Monumental Column (last line) We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. - John Greenleaf Whittier The fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. - John Greenleaf Whittier, To a Southern Statesman The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. - Edward Young, The Revenge (act V) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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