I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't...
If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts, their ports, their p...
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
Youth is the time of getting middle age of improving and old age of spending.
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
That when we live no more, We may live ever
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel or fear but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise...
If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.
If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee.