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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effect; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety, as well as extreme hatred. - [Extremes] Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. - [Flattery] For as the light Not only serves to show, but render us Mutually profitable; so our lives, In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but do to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live. - [Example] He that bears himself like a gentleman, is Worth to have been born a gentleman. - [Gentlemen] He that shuns trifles must shun the world. - [Trifles] Like clocks, one wheel another on must drive, Affairs by diligent labors only thrive. - [Diligence] Marriage is ever made by destiny. - [Destiny] Measure not thy carriage by any man's eye, Thy speech by no man's ear; but be resolute And confident in doing and saying; And this is the grace of a right gentleman. - [Gentlemen] Men's judgments sway on that side fortune leans. - [Judgment] News as wholesome as the morning air. - [News] Promise is most given when the least is said. - translation of Musoeus "Hero and Leander", l. 234 [Promises] The blind goddess of fools. - [Opinion] The old Scythians painted blind fortune's powerful hands with wings, to show her gifts come swift and suddenly, which, if her favorite be not swift to take, he loses them forever. - [Fortune] They're only truly great who are truly good. - [Greatness] Up start as many aches in his bones, as there are ouches in his skin. - [Aches] We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. - [Inheritance] Who 'scapes the snare Once, has a certain caution to beware. - [Caution] Your noblest natures are most credulous. - [Credulity] Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare. - All Fools (act I, sc. 1) [Beauty] I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines. - All Fools (act I, sc. 1, l. 98) [Love] I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts. - All Fools (act II, sc. 1, l. 248) [Pansies] Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth. - All Fools (act V, sc. 1) [Fortune] Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. - All Fools (act V, sc. 1, l. 292) [Folly] An ill weed grows apace. - An Humorous Day's Mirth [Weeds] Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. - An Humorous Day's Mirth [Jewels : Pearls] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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