What is harder than stone?
What more soft than water?
Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it read more

What is harder than stone?
What more soft than water?
Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Words pay no debts.

Words pay no debts.

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.

This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
read more

This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.

Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,--
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
read more

But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,--
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.