If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?

Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.

Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?

What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right read more

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.