It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.

It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

If the husband once give way
To his wife's capricious sway,
For his breeches he next day
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If the husband once give way
To his wife's capricious sway,
For his breeches he next day
May go to whoop and holloa.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.