Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.
Thinking nurseth thinking.
In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.
Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.
Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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