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In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.
A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
But civlyzation doos git forrid
Sometimes upon a powder-cart.
But civlyzation doos git forrid
Sometimes upon a powder-cart.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Better a bare foote then none.
[Better a barefoot than none.]
Better a bare foote then none.
[Better a barefoot than none.]
There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who read more
There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't
know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know
that they know; and those who know that they know.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.