Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows,
Cupid averse rejects divided vows.

Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows,
Cupid averse rejects divided vows.

A child correct behind and not before.

A child correct behind and not before.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
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How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep:
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,
and thy want as an armed man.

The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.

The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.

It adds to the glory both of soule and body.

It adds to the glory both of soule and body.

When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.

When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]