While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.

The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]

The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]

Wode has erys, felde has sigt.

Wode has erys, felde has sigt.

That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a read more

That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of his own,
Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.

Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.