by Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Live with Ease
Language: English
Would you live with ease? Do what you ought and not what you please? Live with ease Do what you ought and not what you please.
Text Authorship:
- by Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), appears in Poor Richard's Almanac [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Sally K. Albrecht (b. 1954), "Live with Ease", copyright © 2020 [ children's chorus and piano ], from Words of Wisdom, no. 2, Alfred Music
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-09-08
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Word count: 26