Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 297, Page 136
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 7
Canto XXXVII, stanza 106 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 297, Page 136
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 7
“3668. Nothing is ill, that ends well.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Of roast mutton served to him at an inn, June 3, 1784, p. 535
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“2245. He that payeth beforehand, shall have his Work ill done.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron
Chi mal ti vuol, mal ti sogna.
Ninth Day, Seventh Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“241. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Every illness is caused by something which is not an illness.”
Javier Marías (1951) Spanish writer
Toda enfermedad viene causada por algo que no es una enfermedad.
Source: Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White] (1992), p. 227
“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)