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A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you,
if you will be served neately.
A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you,
if you will be served neately.
Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the
power to do so.
Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the
power to do so.
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
With winsome cruelty she refuses.
With winsome cruelty she refuses.
Tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.
Tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.
All things deteriorate in time.
All things deteriorate in time.
We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow read more
We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.
A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.