O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world ...
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What is our life? a play of passion; Our mirth the music of division;...
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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
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Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
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PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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The sun may set and rise: But we contrariwise Sleep after our short light One everlasting night.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you. -- last words before his beheadding
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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
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Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
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Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant:...
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by...
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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
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Our graves that hide us from the searching sun Are like drawn curtains when the play is done....
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Even such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have,...
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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