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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.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill dyet was the
mother.
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill dyet was the
mother.
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself
feared?
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself
feared?
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
One stroke fells not an oke.
One stroke fells not an oke.
