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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
No one can keep a mask on long.
No one can keep a mask on long.
The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In read more
The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.
It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.
For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.
He that will be served must bee patient.
He that will be served must bee patient.
This division of labour will lessen the task.
This division of labour will lessen the task.