O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.

Do what you should, not what you may.

Do what you should, not what you may.

Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!

Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.

Married in haste we may repent at leisure.

Married in haste we may repent at leisure.

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save.

Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save.