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Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
Here's metal more attractive.
Here's metal more attractive.
Every mile is two in winter.
Every mile is two in winter.
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
Good words quench more then a bucket of water.
Good words quench more then a bucket of water.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Folly growes without watering.
Folly growes without watering.