How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good read more

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to read more

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

Not seldom clad in radiant vest
Deceitfully goes forth the dawn,
Not seldom evening in the west
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Not seldom clad in radiant vest
Deceitfully goes forth the dawn,
Not seldom evening in the west
Sinks smilingly forsworn.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to
our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to
our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,--
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
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But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,--
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many
superfluous things which the owner knows not of, read more

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many
superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to
the thieves.

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.