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When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch themselves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.
When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch themselves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.
Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance
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- Francis Quarles
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- Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1592–1644)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Quarles. · page_543
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