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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.
For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.
- Clement Walker,
Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.
- Clement Walker,
Folly growes without watering.
Folly growes without watering.
Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.
Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
