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We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be read more
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
The noise is greater then the nuts.
The noise is greater then the nuts.
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
The man of wisdom is the man of years.