Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.

A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.

Chill penury repressed their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.

Chill penury repressed their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.

How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

Nothing is impossible to industry.

Nothing is impossible to industry.

Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub
out.

Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub
out.

The great would have none great and the little all little.

The great would have none great and the little all little.

God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.

God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.