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He that goes softly goes safely.
He that goes softly goes safely.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
Power seldome grows old at Court.
Power seldome grows old at Court.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the
guilt of the act.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the
guilt of the act.
A mind conscious of its own rectitude.
[Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]
A mind conscious of its own rectitude.
[Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]
Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.
Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.
