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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
It is a great victory that comes without blood.
It is a great victory that comes without blood.
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
A little and good fills the trencher.
A little and good fills the trencher.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Better do nothing than do ill.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
