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Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early, or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still;
And when the stars are labouring, we believe
It is not that they govern, but they grieve
For stubborn ignorance; all things that are
Made for our general uses, are at war, —
Even we among ourselves; and from the strife,
Your first unlike opinions got a life.

— John Fletcher The Honest Man's Fortune (1613)

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Source: Epilogue. Compare: "Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sect. 2, memb. 1, subsect. 2.
Work: The Honest Man's Fortune, 1613
Source quality: Precise citation Points to a specific work with a page, chapter, date or similar locator, so you can look it up.

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