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Who makes the past a pattern for next year, / Turns no new leaf, but still the same things reads; / Seen things he sees again, heard things doth hear, / And makes his life but like a pair of beads.
A palace, when 'tis that which it should be, / Leaves growing, and stands such, or else decays; / But he which dwells there is not so; for he / Strives to urge upward, and his fortune raise.