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Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and an upright 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.

Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and an upright 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.

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Beaumont And Fletcher
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 542; printed byline: Beaumont and Fletcher; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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