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Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
A mind conscious of its own rectitude.
[Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]
A mind conscious of its own rectitude.
[Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]
Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet.
[Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]
Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet.
[Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]
Heap on more wood! the wind is chill!
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep read more
Heap on more wood! the wind is chill!
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep up Christmas merry still.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
But few prize honour more than money.
But few prize honour more than money.