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All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it
was first seasoned.
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it
was first seasoned.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
The chiefe boxe of health is time.
The chiefe boxe of health is time.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.