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As threshing separates the corn from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. - [Affliction] As to jest, there ought to be certain things privileged from it--namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, and man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity. - [Jesting] Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. - [Counsel] Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. - [Atheism] Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; 't is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort. - [Bashfulness] Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others. - [Self] Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtues shine and vice blush. - [Beauty] Blushing is the livery of virtue. - [Blushes] Boldness is a child of ignorance. - [Boldness] Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. - [Boldness] Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, and you shall need no other comfort. - [Books] Books will speak plain when counselors blanch. - [Books] Business is bought at a dear hand where there is small despatch. - [Despatch] By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior. - [Revenge] Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. - [Fortune] Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. - [Childhood : Children] Contempt putteth an edge upon anger more than the hurt itself. - [Contempt] Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he makes his wings shorter. - [Associates] Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. - [Custom] Dangers are light, if they seem light; and more dangers have deceived men than forced them. - [Cowards] Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds he will all fast asleep. - [Danger] Death * * * openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. - [Death] Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. - [Death] Decided cases are the anchors of the law, as laws are of the state. - [Law] Discourse ought to be as a field, without coming home to any man. - [Egotism] Displaying page 2 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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