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Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
Chill penury repressed their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.
Chill penury repressed their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.
Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
No choice amongst stinking fish.
No choice amongst stinking fish.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
