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Time is the Rider that breakes youth.
Time is the Rider that breakes youth.
'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be read more
'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
Bear and forbear.
Bear and forbear.
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay read more
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,
And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect
baseness in others.
The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect
baseness in others.
