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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.
Light may come where all looks darkest,
Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of
thee, and so hate thee.
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of
thee, and so hate thee.
Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
Dreading that climax of all earthly ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
Dreading that climax of all earthly ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
When war begins, then hell openeth.
When war begins, then hell openeth.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.