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Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.
Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.
Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him.
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him.
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory read more
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.
The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to read more
The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to despise counsell.