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Fine words dresse ill deedes.
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.
Nothing can come of nothing.
Nothing can come of nothing.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it.
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.
There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.