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EPIGRAM LXIV.
[Gold shall make gold, the rash adventurer cries]
Κρυσεα χαλκειων.
Gold shall make gold, the rash adventurer cries,
Risques all upon a chance—and beggar'd dies—
But moderate profits wisdom's commerce show,
None go so sure, as they who softly go;
The root of gradual growth takes firmest hold;
Let gold get brass—that brass will soon get gold.
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