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Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may read more
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.
He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already
sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb read more
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already
sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian
sea.
One sword keeres another in the sheath.
One sword keeres another in the sheath.
