Sometimes we are devils to ...

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

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He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.