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Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
The eye will have his part.
The eye will have his part.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea.
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He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea.
[He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.]
Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
The March sunne raises but dissolves not.
The March sunne raises but dissolves not.
