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One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be read more
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them: for read more
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
He that marries late, marries ill.
He that marries late, marries ill.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
I have other fish to fry.
I have other fish to fry.
