You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

The shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.

The shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like read more

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about
your fretted roofs.

The reasons of the poore weigh not.

The reasons of the poore weigh not.

Others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches;
And most of sterling worth is what
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Others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches;
And most of sterling worth is what
Our own experience preaches.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.

One slumber finds another.

One slumber finds another.

But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.

But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.

Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.

Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.