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Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.
In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.
Providence is better then a rent.
Providence is better then a rent.
