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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this
the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu!
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

Thou may be sure that he who will tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he ventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

So the heart be right, it is not matter which way the head lies

Let valour end my life!

Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.

The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree;
The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag;
The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

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.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

Love likes not the falling fruit,
Nor the withered tree.

But the longest day hath its evening.

Desire attained is not desire,
But as the cinders of the fire.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.

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.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.

If she undervalues me,
What care I how fair she be?

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.