Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

Look before you leap.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.