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Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
I sit within a helmless bark.
I sit within a helmless bark.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so read more
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,
The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";
The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase
confessed.
Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"
"Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;
Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"
And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";
Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";
Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.
Whither art thou rushing to destruction?
Whither art thou rushing to destruction?
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
