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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.
He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.
He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live
with you.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live
with you.
To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.
To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.