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The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
A melancholy damp of read more
For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
A melancholy damp of cold and dry
To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
The balm of life.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Conversation makes one what he is.
Conversation makes one what he is.
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
