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A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
The fire, with well-dried logs supplied,
Went roaring up the chimney wide.
The fire, with well-dried logs supplied,
Went roaring up the chimney wide.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
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.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, read more
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my
only one!"
Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.
Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
They kindly leave us, but not quite alone,
But in good company, the gout or stone.
They kindly leave us, but not quite alone,
But in good company, the gout or stone.
