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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.
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.
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 fault is as great as hee that is faulty.
The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.
Success brings many to ruin.
Success brings many to ruin.
But, oh! the love that gold must crown!
But, oh! the love that gold must crown!
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else read more
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.