Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.

Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.

Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.

Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live
with you.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live
with you.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

You are his father by nature, I by counsel.

You are his father by nature, I by counsel.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens,
and to rivers foords.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens,
and to rivers foords.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.

A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.