An undertaking beset with danger.

An undertaking beset with danger.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower read more

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?

What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

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.

He that preacheth giveth almes.

He that preacheth giveth almes.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in
his own house.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in
his own house.

But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.

But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.