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Originality provokes originality.
Originality provokes originality.
Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.
Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless,
avarice is never satisfied.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless,
avarice is never satisfied.
He who is first in time has the prior right.
He who is first in time has the prior right.
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.]
Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an
ill, it doubles his fault.
Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an
ill, it doubles his fault.
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.