Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.

Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the
fowler he is.

Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the
fowler he is.

Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto
you.

Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto
you.

The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.