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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. -Sir Philip Sidney.

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.