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Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Do what you should, not what you may.
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
An Idle youth, a needy Age.
An Idle youth, a needy Age.
We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.
We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.
