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A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.
A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
[Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
[Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
There is no retracing our steps.
There is no retracing our steps.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.