Tag: Histories

  • July 1

    Yield not thy neck
    To fortune’s yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
    Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

  • June 26

    For new-made honour doth forget men’s names.

  • June 24

    He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
    Heard, not regarded.

  • June 16

    I were better to be eaten to death with a rust
    than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

  • June 12

    How sour sweet music is,
    When time is broke and no proportion kept!
    So is it in the music of men’s lives.

  • June 11

    This is the state of man:
    to-day he puts forth the tender leaves of hopes;
    to-morrow blossoms.

  • June 8

    Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
    Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden
    And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.