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Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.
A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
He that feares death lives not.
He that feares death lives not.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
judgment.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
judgment.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
He who is first in time has the prior right.
He who is first in time has the prior right.