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He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.
Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.