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What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne
Carpenters (to make them crutches).
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne
Carpenters (to make them crutches).
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.
He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.
He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.
To-night, at least, to-night be gay,
Whate'er to-morrow brings.
To-night, at least, to-night be gay,
Whate'er to-morrow brings.
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!