A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.

But who alas! can love and then be wise?

But who alas! can love and then be wise?

Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!

Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!

When you have set yourself a task finish it.

When you have set yourself a task finish it.

Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.

Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.

I am not now in fortune's power,
He that is down can fall no lower.

I am not now in fortune's power,
He that is down can fall no lower.

Let the worst come to the worst.

Let the worst come to the worst.

Charity sees the need not the cause.

Charity sees the need not the cause.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.