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None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.
None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy
those who are well to do.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy
those who are well to do.
A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
