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By many indignities we come to dignities.
By many indignities we come to dignities.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde,
And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,
There musicke with her read more
While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde,
And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,
There musicke with her silver sound,
Is wont with spede to send redresse.
On a good bargaine thinke twice.
On a good bargaine thinke twice.
Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.
Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Nature made the fields and man the cities.
Nature made the fields and man the cities.
Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.
Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.