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Integrity is praised and starves.
Integrity is praised and starves.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude:
Thy read more
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude:
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.
Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.
They that know one another salute a farre off.
They that know one another salute a farre off.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.