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We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.

They are only safe That know to soothe the prince’s appetite, And serve his lusts.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

The over curious are not over wise.

The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.

Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.

But married once, a man is stak’d or pown’d, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Such as ne’er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

What pity ’tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

I have play’d the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful.

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.

Greatness, with private men Esteem’d a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man’s awe.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn...

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what’s mine.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

My dancing days are past.

Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

Gold – the picklock that never fails.

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

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