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" We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers. "
Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline - Page 32
by William Shakespeare - 1841
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...delay they not deny. Pom. Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays The thing we sue for. MenŠµ. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms,...well : The people love me, and the sea is mine : My power's a crescent, and my auguring hope Says it will come to the full. Marc Antony In Egypt sits at...
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Religious and Moral Sentences Culled from the Works of Shakespeare: Compared ...

William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 pages
...yourself of any crime, Unreconcil'd as yet to Heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight. OTHELLO, v. 2, We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms...good : so find we profit, By losing of our prayers. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii. 1. If, when you make your prayers, God should be so obdurate as yourselves,...
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A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises, Volume 1

Richard Jeffry Cleveland - 1843 - 568 pages
...in the most distressing circumstances, we should never yield to despair, remembering always, that " We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms,...good ; so find we profit By losing of our prayers." When on the point of leaving Lima, for the United States, I received a letter from the owners of the...
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Results of Reading

James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...2 A man often regrets that he did speak on particular occasions: very seldom that he did not speak. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms,...good: so find we profit By losing of our prayers. 3 Men run after fortune; but they should rather run after health, or the means of preserving it. Without...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...delay , they not deny. Pom. Whiles we are suitors to their throne , decays The thing we sue for. Mene. We, ignorant of ourselves , Beg often our own harms...well : The people love me , and the sea is mine ; My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope Says, it will come to the full. Mark Antony In Egypt sits...
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The New Mirror, Volume 3

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 pages
...could design and engrave these unrivalled views. DONNA SYLVERIA LOPEZ AND HER LOVERS. (COSCLFDED.) "We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms,...good ; so find we profit By losing of our prayers." TIME rolled on ; and Sylveria, wearied of the adulation that sorrounded her, suitor after suitor was...
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Wade's London Review, Volumes 1-3

1845 - 916 pages
...falling man," And therefore say we to all actors, still quoting from " the God of our idolatry," " We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms,...good ; so find we profit By losing of our prayers." And so will you find profit in losing your prayers, when ambition prompts them. All men cannot be masters....
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 570 pages
...delay, they not deny. Pom. Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays The thing we sue for. Mene. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms,...well : The people love me, and the sea is mine ; My power's a crescent, and my auguring hope Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony In Egypt sits at...
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Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society

Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1915 - 1178 pages
...horticulturists of more than a generation ago may be repeated. Perhaps, as the bard of Avon wrote, We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms,...wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit. There is a very evident confusion of two entirely different issues. On the one hand there is the restricted...
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Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a ...

William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 156 pages
...There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. Words before blows. What the gods delay, they not deny. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms,...good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers. When good will is shew'd, though 't come too short, The actor may plead pardon. Who seeks, and will...
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