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As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a
buff jerkin in a most read more
As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a
buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of durance?
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
A brute without a single redeeming point.
A brute without a single redeeming point.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.
Anger manages everything badly.
Anger manages everything badly.
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right read more
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.