Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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Italy, my Italy Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais) 'Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'
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Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
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Let us not always say Spite of this flesh today I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole' As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul.'
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