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My soul I'll pour into thee.
Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
The person lives twice who lives the first life well
The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.
In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.
Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.
If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.