<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371073" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: ’Tis Tough to Lead an Honest Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life’s vicissitudes are hard to predict; <br>Its punishments too are cruel to bear; <br>Revocable’s any earthly edict; <br>Dishonesty wins a lot of fun-fair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What’s the use of being most virtuous? <br>The educated ones are made ‘top fools; ’ <br>An honestly done task is arduous; <br>There are for teaching vices, umptine schools. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today’s world is full of man-made chaos; <br>The righteous find it hard to make ends meet; <br>Their ‘ship in waters’ sometimes turns off course! <br>God-dammed, a hasty retreat, they beat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man on earth has an Eel-like existence! <br>Success achieved is mostly much pretence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371073" data-title="Sonnet: ’Tis Tough to Lead an Honest Life de John Celes" data-description="Life’s vicissitudes are hard to predict; Its punishments too are cruel to bear; Revocable’s any earthly edict; Dishonesty wins a lot of fun-fair. What’s the use of being most virtuous? The educated ones are made ‘top fools; ’ An h..."></div> </div> </div>

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