It is engendered in the eyes;
By gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it read more

It is engendered in the eyes;
By gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to read more

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.

If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.

A countenance inconceivably forbidding.

A countenance inconceivably forbidding.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.

And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.

And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.