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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.
What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear
The public burthen of the nation's care.
What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear
The public burthen of the nation's care.
A jade eates as much as a good horse.
A jade eates as much as a good horse.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
My sun has not yet set for ever.
My sun has not yet set for ever.
The Germans wit is in his fingers.
The Germans wit is in his fingers.