Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.

Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory
perusal.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory
perusal.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.

He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.