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How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have read more
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that read more
Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?
But why pursue the common tale?
Or wherefore show how knights prevail,
When ladies dare to hear?
But why pursue the common tale?
Or wherefore show how knights prevail,
When ladies dare to hear?
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
You may safely leave that matter to take care of itself.
You may safely leave that matter to take care of itself.
The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to
vice.
The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to
vice.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.
The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.
