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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
His golden locks time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
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His golden locks time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,
But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
Love and life are for to-day.
Love and life are for to-day.
Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so read more
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,
The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";
The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase
confessed.
Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"
"Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;
Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"
And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";
Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";
Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
