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Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
The body is more drest then the soule.
The body is more drest then the soule.
It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.
It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
Anothers bread costs deare.
Anothers bread costs deare.
Take the goods the gods provide thee.
Take the goods the gods provide thee.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!