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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.
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
To buy deare is not bounty.
To buy deare is not bounty.
A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
And some condemned for a fault alone.
Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife read more
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise
abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]
