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Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your read more
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
The reasons of the poore weigh not.
The reasons of the poore weigh not.
Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.
Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
He that will be served must bee patient.
He that will be served must bee patient.
The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to
those who look back on what has read more
The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to
those who look back on what has passed.