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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed read more
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once,
and seek again that which he despised.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
'Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a
stormy sea.
'Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a
stormy sea.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
Married in haste we may repent at leisure.
Married in haste we may repent at leisure.
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not
ripe.
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not
ripe.
Most men are bad.
Most men are bad.