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Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. - Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim II) [Jesting] He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. - Holy and Profane States--Of Jesting (maxim VII) [Jesting] A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives. - Holy and Profane States--Of Natural Fools (maxim IV) [Folly] The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. - Holy and Profane States--Of Tombs (maxim VI) [Forgetfulness] He is one that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience. - Holy and Profane States--The Good Advocate (bk. II, ch. I) [Honesty] She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. - Holy and Profane States--The Good Wife (bk. I, maxim I, ch. I) [Wives] A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit. - Holy and Profane States--The Hypocrite (maxim I, bk. V, ch. VIII) [Hypocrisy] England is a prison for men, a paradise for women, a purgatory for servants, a hell for horses. - Holy State, referred to as a proverb [England] He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil. - Holy State--Of Self-Praising [Sin] To keep up and improve Friendship, thou must be willing to receive a Kindness, as well as do one. - Introductio ad Prudentiam [Friendship] He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. - Life of the Duke of Alva [Appearance : Soul] He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind. - Medicina Gymnastica (vol. X, p, 7) [Failure] It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle. - Pisgah--Sight of Palestine (ed. 1650, p. 128) [Labor] Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room. - The Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, ch. XII, Of Natural Fools, maxim I) [Wit] Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool. - The Holy and Profane States--Of Natural Fools--Maxim I [Simplicity] Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. - The Holy and Profane States--Of Traveling (maxim IV) [Traveling] Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife. - The Holy and Profane States--The Traitor [Treason] Too good for great things and too great for good. - Worthies [Worth] An index is a necessary implement. * * * Without this, a large author is but a labyrinth without a clue to direct the readers within. - Worthies of England [Indexes] Displaying page 8 of 8 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8]
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