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Let valour end my life!
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
... but the longest day hath its evening.
Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.
Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.
'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.