Quote #7

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

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  1. But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
  2. Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near have neither heat nor light.
  3. Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies o…
  4. Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth, weeping: Their life, a general mist of error, Their death, a …
  5. Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies o…
  6. I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.
  7. Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
  8. Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.

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