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It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory read more
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.
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.
To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.
To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till
afterwards.
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till
afterwards.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.
They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.
