Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.

Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the
Altar.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the
Altar.

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever
more shall we be able to read more

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever
more shall we be able to recall it.

We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
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We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.

This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.

He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.

He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.

A word once spoken cannot be recalled.

A word once spoken cannot be recalled.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.