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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.
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith read more
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and woman,
For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,
Though the world's throne stood open in my path,
I would go wandering back into my childhood,
Searching for them with tears.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.
A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.
It is better to have wings then hornes.
It is better to have wings then hornes.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat
Hogs among Jews, and Wine in read more
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat
Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.