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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
The river past, and God forgotten.
The river past, and God forgotten.
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.
Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
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For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.