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The chiefe boxe of health is time.
The chiefe boxe of health is time.
How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!
How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!
We frolic while 'tis May.
We frolic while 'tis May.
Virtue alone is happiness below.
Virtue alone is happiness below.
What is the sin which is not
Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin
Or virtue?
What is the sin which is not
Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin
Or virtue?
A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.
A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
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.
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
