Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,"/>

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" Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly, "

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly," style="width:100%;margin:20px 0;"/>
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