be neglected due to humble position(The reasons of the poor weigh not.)

risk one's life

in a tearful voice

be full of life

Look before you leap.

profit at the expense of others(enrich oneself to the detriment)

share the same destiny(live or die together)

When the physician's hand fell on that illness

stubborn(a person with one-track mind)

gifted pen

ambush on all sides

hourly(all the time; every moment)

thirty years of age when a man should stand on his own feet(be able to establish oneself at thirty)

be strict and fair in meting out rewards and punishments(deal out justice)

get small returns for great effort

one's reputation is tenfold higher

A man's life and death are matters of fate.

star-crossed(be out of luck)

dignity of the teaching profession

in a deplorable plight and powerless