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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
Sit in your place and none can make you rise.
Sit in your place and none can make you rise.
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the
dowry is too large.
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the
dowry is too large.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
'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?
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays,
And confident to-morrows.
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays,
And confident to-morrows.
A man of refined taste and judgment.
A man of refined taste and judgment.
