Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.

Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.

Comparisons are odious.

Comparisons are odious.

Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

Ask but enough, and you may lower the price as you list.

Ask but enough, and you may lower the price as you list.

No hair so small but hath his shadow.

No hair so small but hath his shadow.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

A penny spar'd is twice got.

A penny spar'd is twice got.

A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man
sickens.

A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man
sickens.