Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.

Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

Laughter holding both his sides.

Laughter holding both his sides.

Rome was not built in a day.

Rome was not built in a day.

He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.

He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.

But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn some grand mistake
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But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.

Fear not the future, weep not for the past.

Fear not the future, weep not for the past.

The Baal-adorer bows on Sinai's steep;
Yet there, e'en there, O God, thy thunders sleep.

The Baal-adorer bows on Sinai's steep;
Yet there, e'en there, O God, thy thunders sleep.