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A life of honour and of worth
Has no eternity on earth,--
'Tis but a name.
A life of honour and of worth
Has no eternity on earth,--
'Tis but a name.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
If any would not work, neither shall he eat.
If any would not work, neither shall he eat.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart read more
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
Poverty is the mother of health.
Poverty is the mother of health.
