Tag: Histories

  • October 19

    October 19

    Even so our houses and ourselves and children
    Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
    The sciences that should become our country,
    But grow like savages.

  • October 18

    October 18

    Mine honour is my life; both grow in one:
    Take honour from me, and my life is done.

  • October 8

    October 8

    Courage mounteth with occasion.

  • October 7

    October 7

    ‘Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

  • October 3

    October 3

    While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!

  • October 2

    October 2

    Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade
    To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
    Than doth a rich embroider’d canopy
    To kings that fear their subjects’ treachery?

  • September 29

    September 29

    I think the King is but a man, as I am.
    The violet smells to him as it doth to me.