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Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think
that your delights will keep till another year.
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think
that your delights will keep till another year.
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a read more
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a harder task to prove--
By firm resolve to conquer love!
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to
you.
As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to
you.
Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient
for me.
Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient
for me.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
