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The end crowneth the work.

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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

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I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

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There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

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If we still advise we shall never do.

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Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

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The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

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The past cannot be cured.

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I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

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Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

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Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

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The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

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It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

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If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

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