The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they
fall.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they
fall.

O how full of briars is this working-day world.

O how full of briars is this working-day world.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Love rules his kingdome without a sword.

Love rules his kingdome without a sword.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh
haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh
haste to be rich shall not be innocent.