And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
An ill weed grows apace.
Fate's such a shrewish thing.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.