The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]

The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]

They kindly leave us, but not quite alone,
But in good company, the gout or stone.

They kindly leave us, but not quite alone,
But in good company, the gout or stone.

Some falls the means are happier to rise.

Some falls the means are happier to rise.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.

He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious read more

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Step after step the ladder is ascended.

Step after step the ladder is ascended.