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He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
Be free, all worthy spirits,
And stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
Your wit is of the true Pierian spring,
That can make anything of anything.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
There is no danger to the man that knows
What life and death is; there's not any law
Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful
That he should stoop to any other law.
He goes before them, and commands them all,
That to himself is a law rational.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind,
Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)