Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things,
but condescend to men of low estate. read more

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things,
but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own
conceits.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and read more

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am read more

These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.

Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.