<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408228" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Thy Life, Thomas, This Compass Well Mark</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of thy life, Thomas, this compass well mark:<br>Not aye with full sails the high seas to beat,<br>Ne by coward dread, in shunning storms dark,<br>On shallow shores thy keel in peril freat<br>. [to fret]<br>Whoso gladly halseth<br>the golden mean [to embrace]<br>Void of dangers advisedly hath his home,<br>Not with loathsome muck, as a den unclean,<br>Nor palace-like whereat disdain may glome<br>. [frown]<br>The lofty pine the great wind often rives;<br>With violenter sway fallen turrets steep;<br>Lightnings assault the high mountains and clives<br>. [splits]<br>A heart well stayed, in overthwarts deep<br>Hopeth amends; in sweet doth fear the sour.<br>God that sendeth, withdraweth winter sharp.<br>Now ill, not aye thus. Once Phoebus to lour<br>With bow unbent shall cease, and frame to harp<br>His voice. In straight estate appear thou stout;<br>And so wisely, when lucky gale of wind<br>All thy puffed sails shall fill, look well about,<br>Take in a reef. Haste is waste, proof doth find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Howard">Henry Howard</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408228" data-title="Of Thy Life, Thomas, This Compass Well Mark de Henry Howard" data-description="Of thy life, Thomas, this compass well mark: Not aye with full sails the high seas to beat, Ne by coward dread, in shunning storms dark, On shallow shores thy keel in peril freat . [to fret] Whoso gladly halseth the golden mean [to embrace] Void o..."></div> </div> </div>

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