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Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and
what he pleaseth.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and
what he pleaseth.
The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.
The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
As the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him read more
As the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him to think what kind of bird it is,
That sings so delicately clear, and make
Conjecture of the plumage and the form.
Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.
Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.