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To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.
To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny.
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
The less of this cold world the more of heaven.
The less of this cold world the more of heaven.