You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang read more

You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.

Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.

Wo be to him that reads but one book.

Wo be to him that reads but one book.

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]

The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]

The big thieves hang the little ones.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Our content
Is our best having.

Our content
Is our best having.

And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.

And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.

Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang
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Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang
To step aside is human.