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In a retreat the lame are formost.
In a retreat the lame are formost.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.
We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.
Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.
Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.
The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.