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Too much of anything is bad.
Too much of anything is bad.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to
beasts.
Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to
beasts.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.
Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.
No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.
No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.