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Anger manages everything badly.
Anger manages everything badly.
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.