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Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and
pounds will take care of themselves.
Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and
pounds will take care of themselves.
What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?
What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the
Dead (i.e. books).
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the
Dead (i.e. books).
Let each man have according to his deserts.
Let each man have according to his deserts.
