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Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Idleness induces caprice.
Idleness induces caprice.
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand
griefes prove.
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand
griefes prove.
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of read more
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]
Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.
Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.
