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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the
manner of his forefathers cultivates with his read more
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the
manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his
paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue.
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
Love and life are for to-day.
Love and life are for to-day.
As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
"In love read more
As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
"In love there is no lack," thus I begin;
"Fair words make fools," replieth he again;
"Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I;
"As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow";
"Fortune assists the boldest," I reply;
"A hasty man," quote he, "ne'er wanted woe";
"Labour is light where love," quote I, "doth pay";
"Light burden's heavy, if far borne";
Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away";
"Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn.
And having thus awhile each other thwarted
Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.
