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Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.
Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
It so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy read more
It so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value.
If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home.
If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home.
To be too busie gets contempt.
To be too busie gets contempt.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.