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The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.
The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with
increased violence.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with
increased violence.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly?
The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.
What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly?
The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Content is more than a kingdom.
Content is more than a kingdom.