How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have read more

How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Nought venture nought have.

Nought venture nought have.

The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.

The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge is power.

Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

Money wants no followers.

Money wants no followers.

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.