Resolved To Ruin Or To Rule The

The Fortitude Of A Christian Consists In Patience, Not In Enterprises Which The Poets Call Heroic, And Which Are Commonly The Effects Of Interest, Pride And Worldly Honor.

So The False Spider, When Her Nets Are Spread, Deep Ambushed In Her Silent Den Does Lie.

Wit Will Shine Through The Harsh Cadence Of A Rugged Line.

Not Heav'n Itself Upon The Past Has Pow'r; But What Has Been, Has Been, And I Have Had My Hour.

Every Age Has A Kind Of Universal Genius, Which Inclines Those That Live In It To Some Particular Studies.