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My dancing days are past.
What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
The over curious are not over wise.
Gold--the picklock that never fails.
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
He that knows no guilt can know no fear.
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.
Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.
Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.
Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.
Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.
The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.
He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful
Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.
Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.
One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.