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The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by
poverty.
Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by
poverty.
He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest
superiority.]
He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest
superiority.]
Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.
Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.