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Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!
To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!
The vulgar follow Fortune's glances.
The vulgar follow Fortune's glances.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken
to is silent.
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken
to is silent.
Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food--
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-- such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
