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Fortune is like a widow won,
And truckles to the bold alone.

— William Somervile

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My hoarse-sounding horn
Invites thee to the chase, the sport of kings;
Image of war, without its guilt.

The Chace (1735)

For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.

He taught them how to live and how to die.

Whate'er of earth is form'd, to earth returns,
* * * * The soul
Of man alone, that particle divine,
Escapes the wreck of worlds, when all things fail.

The Chace (1735)

Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!
Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spread
O'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,
And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.

The Chace (1735)

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Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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