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Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.
The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.
He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.
A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers.
A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.
