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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
sword; the one uses it as a means read more
The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means
of defence.
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.
Promising is the eve of giving.
Promising is the eve of giving.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Originality provokes originality.
Originality provokes originality.