A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider. |
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish |
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 ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. |
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 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 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 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 what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. |
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. |
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are. |
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, as well as pious. |
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, as well as pious. |
Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . . |
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. |