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To be gentle is the test of a lady. - [Ladies] To be humble to our superiors is duty; to our equals, courtesy; to our inferiors, generosity. - [Humility] To go to law, is for two persons to kindle a fire at their own cost, to warm others, and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree, to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers. - [Law] Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. - [Sincerity] Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression. - [Vice] Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. - [Virtue] Virtue is the truest liberty. - [Virtue] Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her. - [Virtue] We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys. - [Sorrow] When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys. - [Secrecy] Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy. - [Alms] Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid. - [Faith] Yet even this hath this inconvenience in it--that it makes its possessor neglect the furnishing of the mind with nobleness. Nay, it oftentimes is a cause that the mind is ill. - [Beauty] Zeal without humility is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. - [Zeal] When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raises, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound. - Lusoria (XXXIV) [Singing] Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing. - Resolves (p. 316), (ed. 1696) [World] I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives it: for Optima corrupta pessima: the best things corrupted become the worst. - Resolves (XXX, Of Woman, p. 70), (Pickering's Reprint of Fourth Edition) [Corruption] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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