A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
bus to take care read more

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
bus to take care of his tools.

Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow
Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;
And the sad read more

Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow
Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;
And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk,
Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.

I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.

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).

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.

Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.