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Words writ in waters.
An ill weed grows apace.
Love is Natures second sun.
Fate's such a shrewish thing.
Enough 's as good as a feast.
Tis immortality to die aspiring.
Fair words never hurt the tongue.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
News as wholesome as the morning air.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed.
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.