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Hold their nose to the grindstone.
Hold their nose to the grindstone.
What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under read more
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else read more
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
What has not wasting time impaired?
What has not wasting time impaired?
An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.
An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope:
I have hope to live, and am prepared read more
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope:
I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.
