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I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
I hate ingratitude more in man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.
I hate ingratitude more in man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to
fit it for toil when resumed.
Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to
fit it for toil when resumed.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
He that is once borne, once must dy.