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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
The body is sooner drest then the soule.
The body is sooner drest then the soule.
Those things please more, which are more expensive.
Those things please more, which are more expensive.
Citties are taken by the eares.
Citties are taken by the eares.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.
We take no note of time
But from its loss.
We take no note of time
But from its loss.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.