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One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.
You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
A novice always behaves with propriety.
A novice always behaves with propriety.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into read more
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!