In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls

A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.