“Humility I’d recommend
Good nature, too, with ease,
Be generous, good, and kind to all,
You’ll never fail to please.”
Susanna Hayes.
Samplers Expatiating upon Virtue or Vice, Wealth or Poverty, Happiness or Misery
Amongst these may be noted:—
“Happy is he, the only man,
Who out of choice does all he can
Who business loves and others better makes
By prudent industry and pains he takes.
God’s blessing here he’ll have and man’s esteem,
And when he dies his works will follow him.”
Of those dealing with wealth or poverty none, perhaps, is more incisive than this:—
“The world’s a city full of crooked streets,
And Death’s the market-place where all men meet;
If life was merchandise that men could buy
The rich would always live, the poor alone would die.”
An American sampler has the following from Burns’s “Grace before Meat”:—
“Some men have meat who cannot eat
And some have none who need it.
But we have meat and we can eat,
And so the Lord be thanked.”
