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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.
He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
There's not a string attuned to mirth,
But has its chord in melancholy.
There's not a string attuned to mirth,
But has its chord in melancholy.
Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if
you want to be somebody.
Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if
you want to be somebody.