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“Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.”

Ifs Men Stills Would Be Chance Teaching Childhood Slave Ill Tyranny Tyrants Excess Wickedness Purple Despots

Book:Poems. The history of a crime

Source: Poems. The history of a crime

“We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.”

Chance Ought Ill

Book:Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems

Source: Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems

“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.”

Ifs May Light Grows Waiting Chance Darkness Worst Horror Ill Flight Woe Never Ending Darkness To Light

Book:Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

“Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.”

Men Chance Events Luck Ill Anticipation Merry Heaviness

Author:William Shakespeare

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.”

Chance Decision Creativity Ill Problem Solving

Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet