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A bitter drug oft brings relief.
A bitter drug oft brings relief.
He comes not in my books.
He comes not in my books.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else read more
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.
I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.