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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.
A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Still harping on my daughter.
Still harping on my daughter.
Live according to your income.
Live according to your income.
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my read more
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
A word once spoken cannot be recalled.