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This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
This even-handed justice
Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
If that you have a former friend for foe.
If that you have a former friend for foe.
Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to
his bosom?
Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to
his bosom?
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
A man convinced against his will,
Is of the some opinion still.
A man convinced against his will,
Is of the some opinion still.