Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.

Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the
unfortunate.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the
unfortunate.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Those who hide can find.

Those who hide can find.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

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.