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Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose.
Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.
What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs
down and prostates the mind also.
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs
down and prostates the mind also.
