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We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.
We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
Give me the ocular proof.
Give me the ocular proof.
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
We take no note of time
But from its loss.
We take no note of time
But from its loss.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.