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Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
The chiefe boxe of health is time.
The chiefe boxe of health is time.
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
To be too busie gets contempt.
To be too busie gets contempt.
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower read more
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
