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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream read more
Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,
From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,
To caper on sunny greens and slopes,
Instead of the dance upon nothing.
No one can have all he desires.
No one can have all he desires.
One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]
One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
