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The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little
mouse.
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little
mouse.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a
spindle, and no staffe to spin.
A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a
spindle, and no staffe to spin.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.
Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
No mortal man is wise at all times.
No mortal man is wise at all times.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.