"611. Time is the rider that breakes youth."

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“Wit's an unruly engine, wildly strikingSometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.”

“A verse may finde him,who a sermon fliesAnd turns delight into a sacrifice.”

“It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom.”

“By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,Cannot on forty.”

“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,When once it is within thee.”

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