Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.

Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy
pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the read more

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy
pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others,
dissatisfied with our own.]

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.

Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright
Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.

Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright
Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.

Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon 'em.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon 'em.