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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
Just taking it one day at a time.
Just taking it one day at a time.
The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
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The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
