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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
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Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror.
Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.
Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.
Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.
Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.
I sit within a helmless bark.
I sit within a helmless bark.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these
things cometh the wrath of God upon read more
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these
things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.