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Every one can master a grief, but he that has it.
A wise man is not loquacious.

Known virtue bears the privilege of trust.

75 Ill can he stay whom love doth press to stay.
Fairest of all things fair on earth is virtue.

It is no mean happiness to be stated in the mean.
Time is the old justice that examines all offenders.
Some are good at anything and yet fools.

80 Mirth bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
The less will prattle of what great ones do.
Ourselves we do not owe.

Love can give no man place; brook no denial.
What's to come is still unsure.

85 Fools think that all is fortune.

The wise and virtuous pity enemies.

Do what you please, so that it be becoming.
The labour we delight in physics pain.

The great in villainy are little valiant.

90 Stern looks sometimes dwell with a gentle heart.
Fear still attends upon the steps of wrong.

Their fears are most who know not what they fear.
Deaf as the sea, hasty as fire, is anger.

Hateful to God and to good men are lies.

95 To the sorrowful sorrow seems to dwell everywhere. To the poor exile all the world's his way.

In vain comes counsel to a self-closed ear.
He tires by times that spurs too fast by times.
A while to work and after holiday.

100 What must perforce be done, as willing do.
A weighty business will not brook delay.

Poise every cause in the equal scale of justice. No punishment should exceed the law's commission. A wound being green, there is great hope of help. 105 Hide not a poisonous act with sugared words. Judgment in truth belongs to God alone. Suspicion thinks the least signs probable. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Bad habits taught are bid in vain to cease.

110 True nobility is exempt from fear.

Much rain wears the marble.

Trust not to him that once hath broken faith.

Give not more strength to that which has too much.
Count of thyself as bad till thou be best.

115 None can e'er cure their harms by wailing them.

Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.

Saying and doing well should yoke together.
Pity is choakt by custom of fell deeds.

A friendly eye is slow to see small faults.
120 His country's friend must be a foe to tyrants.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.
125 Man, know thyself: all wisdom centres there.
Good offices their likeness get.

Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie.

Yet in thy thriving still misdoubt some evil. 130 Scorn no man's love though of a mean degree. Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

AMBITION

00 often those who entertain ambition
expel remorse and nature.

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PASSION DEAF

T is but wasting time to counsel those

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ADVANTAGE OF TRAVELLING

'IS useful oft to perfecting a man

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that he be tried and tutored in the world.

CHILDREN

HILDREN are bound by virtue to maintain the credit of good parents.

COURAGE AND HOPE

OURAGE and hope are provident in peril, and vanquish greatest dangers.

ENEMY-A NOBLE CONSOLES

F one should be a prey, how much the better to fall before the lion than the wolf,

FALSE FRIENDS

HAPPIER is he that has no friends to feed,

such as do e'en enemies exceed.

139 DISPOSITION MAY BE CORRUPTED BY POWER

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A GOOD and virtuous nature may recoil

in an imperial charge.

FOLLY MOST NOTED IN THE WISE

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OLLY in fools bears not so strong a note,
as foolery in the wise.

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HE bird, that hath been limed in a bush,

Twith trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

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PREVENTION

LITTLE fire is quickly trodden out;
which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.

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PASSION

HE mind by passion driven from its firm hold becomes a feather to each wind that blows.

145 EXERTION OUR DUTY, NOT LAMENTATION EASE to lament for that thou canst not help;

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REGRET TOO LATE

HAT our contempts do often hurl from us, we wish it our's again.

FILIAL INGRATITUDE

HOW sharper than a serpent's tooth it is

to have a thankless child.

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ANXIETY USELESS

'ARE is no cure but rather corrosive
for things that are not to be remedied.

MARRIAGE

MARRIAGE is a matter of more worth

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than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

SOUND WITHOUT STRENGTH

MALL curs are not regarded when they grin, but great men tremble when the lion roars,

WILL ACCEPTED AS THE DEED

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poor willing duty cannot do, noble respect accepts as done.

INNOCENCE-UNSUSPICIOUS

UNSTAINED thoughts do seldom dream of evil;

birds never limed no secret bushes fear.

KINGS SHOULD BE AN EXAMPLE

PRING

RINCES should be the glass, the school, the book where subjects' eyes may learn and read and look.

DEATH WELCOME TO THE UNHAPPY

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HEN that is gone for which we sought to live, wretched no longer we have fear to die.

Suffering AGGRAVATED BY CONTRAST

TIS double death to die in sight of shore:

he ten times pines that pines beholding food.

BEAUTY

BEAUTY in holy antique hours was seen

without all ornament, itself and true.

LIFE-A LOAN

NATURE'S but does.

JATURE'S bequest gives nothing; but does lend,

LOVE GIVES IDEAL VALUE

HINGS base and vile, holding no quality,

THINGS base and and quality

THE WORLD'S A STAGE

IS fit we hold the world but as the world,

'T's stage where every man must play his part.

IMMODERATE WEALTH, HOW POOR

HEY are sick that surfeit with too much

Tas they that starve with nothing.

VICE IMITATES VIRTUE

Tsome shew of virtue in its outward parts.

HERE scarce is vice so simple but assumes

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DANGER-PREVENTION

IS wiser to prevent an urgent danger,
than to lose time in questioning how it grew.

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ENCOURAGEMENT UNDER CALAMITY

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HINGS at the worst will cease; or e'en climb upward

to what they were before.

CIVIL WAR-UNNATURAL

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Iwith that dear blood which it hath fostered.

PRODIGALITY

ARN what you spend: and spend not basely that which worthy hands have honourably won.

DEATH THE FRIEND OF THE UNHAPPY

UST death, the umpire of men's miseries,
dismisses sufferers with sweet enlargement.

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E careful the ship split not on a rock,
which industry and courage might have saved.

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EXTERNAL ELEVATION

HEY that stand high have many blasts to shake them,

and if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

MEMORY OF THE DEAD

EN'S evil manners live in brass: their virtues we write in water.

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EXTREMES of fortune are true wisdom's test,

and he's of men most wise, who bears them best.

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FORGIVENESS

R. CUMBERLAND

ORGIVENESS to the injured does belong,
but they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

THE FUTURE

ONE can the turns of Providence foresee,
or what their own catastrophe may be.

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SYMPATHY LESSENS grief

E oft finds medicine who his griefe imparts, but double griefs afflict concealing harts.

E. SPENSER

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