Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
A hare is not caught with a drum.
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.