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Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.
Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
A hundred loade of thought will not pay one of debts.
A hundred loade of thought will not pay one of debts.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith read more
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and woman,
For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,
Though the world's throne stood open in my path,
I would go wandering back into my childhood,
Searching for them with tears.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.
