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Better do nothing than do ill.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]
One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you
embrace another.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you
embrace another.
We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth.
We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth.
Despair of all recovery spoils longevity,
And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity.
Despair of all recovery spoils longevity,
And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity.
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
