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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Strict law is often great injustice.
Strict law is often great injustice.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which
is without discretion.
Simple is the language of truth.
Simple is the language of truth.
Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an
injustice in itself; to expect read more
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an
injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the
unjust, is simple folly.