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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
