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No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing
misfortune to another.
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing
misfortune to another.
Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?
Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?
He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
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?
With taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish.
With taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish.
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.
Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.
A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.