Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.

Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.

To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.

To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.

Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.

Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.

Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.

Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.

Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

Should banded unions persecute
Opinions, and induce a time
When single thought is civil crime,
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Should banded unions persecute
Opinions, and induce a time
When single thought is civil crime,
And individual freedom mute,
. . . .
Then waft me from the harbour's mouth,
Wild wind, I seek a warmer sky.

The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]

The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]