Robert Burton

See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all.

See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all.

Put his shoulder to the wheel.

Put his shoulder to the wheel.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope,
they would be hanged read more

And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope,
they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save
charges.

'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they
may: and as Praxiteles did by his read more

'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they
may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy
face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more
as bad in a moment.