You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life.

You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life.

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?

Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more

Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Every man can master a grief but he that has it.

Every man can master a grief but he that has it.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.

Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.

Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.

He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.

He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.