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Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he read more
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
