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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.
The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.
I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
A smiling face is half the meal.
A smiling face is half the meal.
They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed
to rich men that are unthankful to God).
They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed
to rich men that are unthankful to God).
Something must be allowed to custom.
Something must be allowed to custom.
And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.
And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.
A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.
