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Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]
Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays,
And confident to-morrows.
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays,
And confident to-morrows.
He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.
He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
