If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.

We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.

But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn some grand mistake
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But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.

All griefes with bread are lesse.

All griefes with bread are lesse.

A brute without a single redeeming point.

A brute without a single redeeming point.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the
deede, the French after the deede.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the
deede, the French after the deede.

A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.

A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.