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This world is nothing except it tend to another.
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
The day is short, the work is much.
The day is short, the work is much.
How far that little candle throws its beams;
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
How far that little candle throws its beams;
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what
is not known.
What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what
is not known.
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming
back.
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming
back.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
I talk of cheese, you of chalk.
I talk of cheese, you of chalk.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
There is no evil without its compensation.
There is no evil without its compensation.