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Every mile is two in winter.
Every mile is two in winter.
Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.
Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.
Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will
become broken and his torch extinguished.
Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will
become broken and his torch extinguished.
The more skilful the gambler, the worse the man.
The more skilful the gambler, the worse the man.
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Virtue alone is happiness below.
Virtue alone is happiness below.
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy read more
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.