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.

an intensely competitive environment.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: and go sparing - One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look t

Best while you have it use your breath,
There is no drinking after death. (The Bloody Brother)

And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October

I find the medicine worse than the malady