'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be read more

'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

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.

Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled;
nor can the hour, which has once fled read more

Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled;
nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to read more

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to do so.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!

You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!