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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

So false is faction, and so smooth a liar,
As that it never had a side entire.

Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

The wise are above books.

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

The stars that have most glory have no rest.

When better cherries are not to be had,
We needs must take the seeming best of bad.

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

This many-headed monster, Multitude.

This is that rest this vain world lends,
To end in death that all things ends.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.