Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done
When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.

Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done
When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.

A live dog is better than a dead lion.

A live dog is better than a dead lion.

And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.

And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.

In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.

In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be read more

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]

The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.

There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes.

Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes.