Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Let those love now, who never loved before,
Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Let those love now, who never loved before,
Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.

Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
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O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

You kick against the goad.

You kick against the goad.

Good things soon find a purchaser.

Good things soon find a purchaser.

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the
Dead (i.e. books).

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the
Dead (i.e. books).