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A mad world, my masters. - [Work] A wise man likes that best, that is itself; Not that which only seems, though it look fairer. - [Choice] Anything for a quiet life. - title of a play [Proverbs : Rest] Beware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride; but with submission. - [Ambition] For he That sows in craft does reap in jealousy. - [Craft] How near am I to happiness That earth exceeds not? not another like it. The treasures of the deep are not so precious,/As are the conceal'd comforts of a man Lock'd up in woman's love. I scent the air Of blessings, when I come but near the house; What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. The violet-bed's not sweeter. Honest wedlock Is like a banqueting-house built in a golden, On which the spring's chaste flowers take delight To cast their modest odors. - [Matrimony] Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteem'd, But honesty once pawn'd, is ne'er redeem'd. - [Honesty] 'Mongst all your virtues I see not charity written, which some call The first born of religion; and I wonder, I cannot see it in yours. Believe it, sir, There is no virtue can be sooner miss'd Or later welcom'd; it begins the rest, And sets them all in order. - [Charity] Rivers from bubbling springs Have rise at first; and great, from abject things. - [Trifles] Shame sticks ever close to the ribs of honor. - [Shame] The treasures of the deep are not so precious as are the concealed comforts of a man locked up in woman's love. - [Wedlock] There is no virtue can be sooner missed or later welcomed; it begins the rest, and sets them all in order. - [Charity] This is the fruit of craft: Like him that shoots up high, looks for the shaft, And finds it in his forehead. - [Craft : Cunning] Virtue itself offends, when coupled with forbidding manners. - [Good Breeding : Manners] When men's intents are wicked, their guilt haunts them, But when they are just they're arm'd, and nothing daunts them. - [Design] Who loves law, dies either mad or poor. - [Law] All is not gold that glisteneth. - A Fair Quarrel (act V, sc. 1) [Appearance] The world's a stage on which all parts are played. - A Game of Chess (act V) [World] In the election of a wife, as in A project of war, to err but once is To be undone forever. - Anything for a Quiet Life (act I, sc. 1) [Wives] My nearest And dearest enemy. - Anything for a Quiet Life (act V, sc. 1) [Enemies] I never heard Of any true affection but 'twas nipped. - Blurt, Master Constable (act III, sc. 2) [Love] Love is all in fire, and yet is ever freezing; Love is much in winning, yet is more in leesing: Love is ever sick, and yet is never dying; Love is ever true, and yet is ever lying; Love does doat in liking, and is mad in loathing; Love indeed is anything, yet indeed is nothing. - Blurt, Master Constable (act III, sc. 2) [Love] Hold their nose to the grindstone. - Blurt, Master Constable (act III, sc. 3) [Proverbs] Like pearl Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn Upon the bashful rose. - Game of Chess [Morning] 'Tis a stinger. - More Dissemblers Besides Women (act III, sc. 2) [Proverbial Phrases] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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