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Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your read more
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
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Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it.
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it.
O well for him whose will is strong,
He suffers, but he will not suffer long.
O well for him whose will is strong,
He suffers, but he will not suffer long.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
