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Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
The wind in ones face makes one wise.
The wind in ones face makes one wise.
They that know one another salute a farre off.
They that know one another salute a farre off.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword
on me.
Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword
on me.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.