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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft
remonstrance.
He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft
remonstrance.
Just then, as by the tumult riven,
Poured down at once the lowering heaven.
Just then, as by the tumult riven,
Poured down at once the lowering heaven.
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.