Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.
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Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).John Wolcot
Faith is the nail which fastens the soul to Christ; and love is that grace that drives the nail to the head. Faith takes hold of Him, and love helps to keep the grip. Christ dwells in the heart by faith, and He burns in the heart by love, like a fire melting the breast. Faith casts the knot, and love draws it fast.
Thomas Erskine
My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid’s curse:
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!George Peele
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.George Wither
A man who's active and incisive
can yet keep nail-care much in mind:
why fight what's known to be decisive?
custom is despot of mankind.Aleksandr (Alexander Pushkin) Pushkin
Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the gallow-tree.John Fletcher
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