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For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
Go to Jericho.
Let them all go to Jericho,
And ne'er be seen againe.
Go to Jericho.
Let them all go to Jericho,
And ne'er be seen againe.
Love and life are for to-day.
Love and life are for to-day.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith read more
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and woman,
For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,
Though the world's throne stood open in my path,
I would go wandering back into my childhood,
Searching for them with tears.
Laughter
Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
Laughter
Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.