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Make hay while the sun shines.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
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Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Time flies never to be recalled.
Time flies never to be recalled.
While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.
While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.
