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The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.
The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.
If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.
So closely our whims on our miseries tread,
That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried.
So closely our whims on our miseries tread,
That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried.
Folly growes without watering.
Folly growes without watering.
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?