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The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie.
[Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]
Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie.
[Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
One picture is worth ten thousand words.
One picture is worth ten thousand words.
That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in read more
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
It is best to know the worst at once.
It is best to know the worst at once.