Even victors are by victories undone.
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Made still a blund'ring kind of melody Spurr'd boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.John Dryden
Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms.
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This to affirm were ignorance, or pride.
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