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You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
The vertue of a coward is suspition.
The vertue of a coward is suspition.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
