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Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen. - [Feet] Danger knows full well, That Caesar is more dangerous than he: We are two lions litter'd in one day, And I the elder and more terrible. - [Danger] Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. - [Youth] Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. - [Death] Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine are counsellors to fear. - [Timidity] Death, as the psalmist with, is certain to all; all shall die. - [Death] Death, remembered, should be like a mirror, who tells us life is but a breath; to trust it, error. - [Death] Defect of manners, want of government, Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain; The least of which, haunting a nobleman, Loseth men's hearts, and leaves behind a stain Upon the beauty of all parts besides; Beguiling them of commendation. - [Manners] Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionably, That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them. But I,--that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty, To strut before a wanton ambling nymph. - [Deformity] Delays have dangerous ends. - [Procrastination : Proverbs] Didst them never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? - [Success] Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. - [Reputation] Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness, Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. How easy is it for the proper false In women's waxen hearts to set their forms! Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For, such as we are made of, such are we. - [Disguise] Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, puffing at all, winnows the light away. - [Distinction] Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise. - [Meditation] Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my heart her several torments dwell. - [Hell] Do but see his vice; 't is to his virtue a just virtue a just equinox, the one as long as the other. - [Vice] Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood. - [Temptation] Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And reeks not his own road. - [Clergymen] Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolv'd to effect. - [Perseverance : Resolution] Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? - [Man] Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. - [Appetite] Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt, I love. - [Doubt] Down, thou climbing sorrow. - [Sorrow] Downy sleep, death's counterfeit. - [Sleep] Displaying page 11 of 187 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187
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