The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

So still we glide down to the sea
Of fathomless eternity.

So still we glide down to the sea
Of fathomless eternity.

Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.

Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.

I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.

I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife read more

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise
abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

Many friends in generall, one in speciall.

Many friends in generall, one in speciall.

He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.

He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you read more

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To read more

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.