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Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial
in the shade?
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial
in the shade?
Stay a little and news will find you.
Stay a little and news will find you.
Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his pomp read more
Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his pomp of pageantry, as if
He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail.
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
No one can have all he desires.
No one can have all he desires.
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.