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When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same
thing as if he slew him.
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same
thing as if he slew him.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
Good horses make short miles.
Good horses make short miles.
I hate all children of precocious talent.
I hate all children of precocious talent.
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes.
Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes.
