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Anothers bread costs deare.
Anothers bread costs deare.
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.
Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
