It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
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Whom David's love with honours did adorn,
That from his disobedient son were torn.
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The sun, when he from noon declines, And with abated heat less fiercely shines seems to grow milder as he goes away.
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