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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.
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Apollo does not always bend his bow.
Apollo does not always bend his bow.