Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.

Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think
that your delights will keep till another year.

Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think
that your delights will keep till another year.

Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same.

Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same.

Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.

Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed read more

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once,
and seek again that which he despised.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife read more

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise
abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

A drunkards purse is a bottle.

A drunkards purse is a bottle.

He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.

He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.