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 Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those 
matters with which I am unacquainted.  
 Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those 
matters with which I am unacquainted. 
 Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
 To what they were before.  
 Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
 To what they were before. 
 He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he 
might take the current sideways.  
 He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he 
might take the current sideways. 
 We have not wings, we cannot soar,
 But we have feet to scale and climb
  By slow read more 
 We have not wings, we cannot soar,
 But we have feet to scale and climb
  By slow degrees, by more and more,
   The cloudy summits of our time. 
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
 To pluck the vicious quitch
 Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
  And make all clean read more 
 To pluck the vicious quitch
 Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
  And make all clean and plant himself afresh. 
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
 I am not what I once was.
 [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]  
 I am not what I once was.
 [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.] 
 And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
 That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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 And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
 That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
  And makes it a sorrow to be.