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The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.
The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]
I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]
I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.
I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
Little we heed the tempest drear,
While music, mirth, and social cheer,
Speed on their wings the read more
Little we heed the tempest drear,
While music, mirth, and social cheer,
Speed on their wings the passing year.
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
Idleness induces caprice.
Idleness induces caprice.