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What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
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.
Who gives to all, denies all.
Who gives to all, denies all.
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than
those who turn beggars.
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than
those who turn beggars.
