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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
Wee know not who lives or dies.
Wee know not who lives or dies.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Man Proposeth, God disposeth.
Man Proposeth, God disposeth.
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
He that seekes trouble never misses.
[He that seeks trouble never misses.]
He that seekes trouble never misses.
[He that seeks trouble never misses.]
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee
hath laid out.
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee
hath laid out.