If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

A penny spar'd is twice got.

A penny spar'd is twice got.

Divine grace was never slow.

Divine grace was never slow.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.

Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.

Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.

Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.