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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
Just then, as by the tumult riven,
Poured down at once the lowering heaven.
Just then, as by the tumult riven,
Poured down at once the lowering heaven.
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
The Rich knowes not who is his friend.
The Rich knowes not who is his friend.