Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end. |
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. |
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. |
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. |
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. |
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. |
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. |
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. |
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. |
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke. |
The person lives twice who lives the first life well. |
Who covets more is evermore a slave. |
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. |
Tears are the noble language of the eye. |
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. |