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What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
What's gone, and what's past help,
Should be past grieve.
What's gone, and what's past help,
Should be past grieve.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is
profitable.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is
profitable.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
bus to take care of his tools.
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little
mouse.
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little
mouse.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh
till your hearts ake.
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh
till your hearts ake.
For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
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For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
A melancholy damp of cold and dry
To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
The balm of life.