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Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Life isn't our possession, something we own. We're alive as we receive life from God, as the gift of his grace and mercy.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

Ha, ha, ha, thou entanglest thyself in thine own work like a silkworm.

O me, this place is hell.

O that I were a man, or that I had power

To execute my apprehended wishes!

I would whip some with scorpions.

Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,
Enters the devil murder.

What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.

We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel,
Till pain itself make us no pain to feel.

Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.

I account this world a tedious theater,
For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.

Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge,
Which dwells but in the tongue!

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action ... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

Sometimes the Devil doth preach.

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

Fortune's a right whore:
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty ...

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

Are you out of your princely wits?
What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

As in this world there are degrees of evils,
So in this world there are degrees of devils.

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

If all my royal kindred
Lay in my way unto this marriage,
I'ld make them my low foot-steps

I am Duchess of Malfi still.

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?

Black-birds fatten best in hard weather

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth.

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

And great men do great good, or else great harm.