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If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you read more
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is
profitable.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is
profitable.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.
Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.
If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.
If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.
Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes.
Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes.
Better a bare foote then none.
[Better a barefoot than none.]
Better a bare foote then none.
[Better a barefoot than none.]
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.