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Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
 She only said, My life is dreary,
 He cometh not, she said;
  She said I am aweary, read more 
 She only said, My life is dreary,
 He cometh not, she said;
  She said I am aweary, aweary,
   Oh God, that I were dead. 
An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.
An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
 Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
 The thoughts of others.  
 Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
 The thoughts of others. 
 As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
 So honour peereth in the meanest habit.  
 As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
 So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 
 Still achieving, still pursuing,
 Learn to labour and to wait.  
 Still achieving, still pursuing,
 Learn to labour and to wait. 
 He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
 Into glossy purples, that outredden
  All voluptuous garden roses.  
 He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
 Into glossy purples, that outredden
  All voluptuous garden roses.