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/ page 455 of 1205 /No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by...
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The sun may set and rise: But we contrariwise Sleep after our short light One everlasting night.
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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you. -- last words before his beheadding
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But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.
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PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
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But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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Our graves that hide us from the searching sun Are like drawn curtains when the play is done....
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Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant:...
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Even such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have,...
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