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To John I owed great obligation:
But John unhandsomely thought fit
To publish it to all the read more
To John I owed great obligation:
But John unhandsomely thought fit
To publish it to all the nation;
Sure John and I are more than quit.
If the destructive dice-box has pleasures for the father, the son
will be a gambler.
If the destructive dice-box has pleasures for the father, the son
will be a gambler.
So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.
So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
Idleness induces caprice.
Idleness induces caprice.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.