Wishing of all employments is the worst
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.