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To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!
To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.
Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
[Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]
Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
[Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Poverty is the mother of health.
Poverty is the mother of health.