At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

This is no time for staring about.

This is no time for staring about.

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into read more

Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing read more

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs.

The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs.