Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]

Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.

Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.

What mare's nest hast thou found?

What mare's nest hast thou found?

For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.

For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.