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Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.
Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
Idle men are the devil's playfellows.
Idle men are the devil's playfellows.
Her tears will pierce into a marble heart.
Her tears will pierce into a marble heart.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.
Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.