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One picture is worth ten thousand words.
One picture is worth ten thousand words.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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.
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my read more
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
He that preacheth giveth almes.
He that preacheth giveth almes.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.