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It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle.
[It is a poor sport that is not worth the read more
It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle.
[It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.]
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from read more
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise
after he is dead.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Love is not found in the market.
Love is not found in the market.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
It will please though ten times repeated.
It will please though ten times repeated.
Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme
valleys.
Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme
valleys.
Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.
Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.