Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.

Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.

Alas! sir,
In what have I offended you? What cause
Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?

Alas! sir,
In what have I offended you? What cause
Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?

Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my
neighbour white.

I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my
neighbour white.

One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
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One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.

Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.

Not even the gods can withstand necessity.

Not even the gods can withstand necessity.

The abuse of cabmen in a block.

The abuse of cabmen in a block.