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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?