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A gentleman I could never make him, though I could make him a lord. - said to his old nurse, who begged him to make her son a gentleman [Gentlemen] If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian]. - [Libraries] It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty. - [Future] When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself. - [Proverbs] To make the plough go before the horse. - Letter to the Lord Keeper [Order] God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe. - Sonnet Addressed to his son, Prince Henry [Royalty]
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