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The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.
Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both
of them.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both
of them.
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing
else in this world.
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing
else in this world.
A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.
Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.