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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.
Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience.
Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is
profitable.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is
profitable.
Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by
poverty.
Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by
poverty.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
The first blow is as much as two.
The first blow is as much as two.
The less of this cold world the more of heaven.
The less of this cold world the more of heaven.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.