Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Whither art thou rushing to destruction?

Whither art thou rushing to destruction?

A wilful man maun hae his way.

A wilful man maun hae his way.

But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.

But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.

'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.

Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own
conduct.

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own
conduct.