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Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
God comes to see without a bell.
God comes to see without a bell.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]
He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no
evil, and to grow pale at read more
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no
evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
