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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.
Let all live as they would die.
Let all live as they would die.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.
A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.
Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.
Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.
Dreading that climax of all earthly ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
Dreading that climax of all earthly ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
The shadow of a mighty name.
The shadow of a mighty name.
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]