Step after step the ladder is ascended.

Step after step the ladder is ascended.

Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.

Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.

The mill cannot grind with water that's past.

The mill cannot grind with water that's past.

I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife
that shall be my master.]

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one
difficulty involves us in another.

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one
difficulty involves us in another.

To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!

To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!

He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.

He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

An angry man, when he returns to reason, will be again angry with
himself.

An angry man, when he returns to reason, will be again angry with
himself.