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What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.
What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.
Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]