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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.

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.

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

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.

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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

'TIS

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

IF one t

one should be a prey, how much the better

HAPPIER is he that has no friends to feed,

than such as do e'en enemies exceed.

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GOOD and virtuous nature may recoil
in an imperial charge.

FOLLY MOST NOTED IN THE WISE

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

THE bird, that hath been limed in a bush,
with 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

WOW 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

MARRIAGE

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MARRIAGE is a matter of more worth

than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

SOUND WITHOUT STRENGTH

MALL curs are not regarded when they grin,

WILL ACCEPTED AS THE DEED

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

INNOCENCE-UNSUSPICIOUS

UNSTAINED do
NSTAINED thoughts do seldom dream of evil;

KINGS SHOULD BE AN EXAMPLE

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RINCES should be the glass, the school, the book

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DEATH WELCOME TO THE UNHAPPY

WHEN

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

SUFFERING AGGRAVATED BY CONTRAST

IS double death to die in sight of shore:

pings food.

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BEAUT

EAUTY in holy antique hours was seen
without all ornament, itself and true.

LIFE-A LOAN

[ATURE'S bequest gives nothing; but does lend, and being frank she lends to those are free.

LOVE GIVES IDEAL VALUE

HINGS base and vile, holding no quality,

THINGS base and and dignity

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THE WORLD'S A STAGE

IS fit we hold the world but as the world,
a stage where every man must play his part.

IMMODERATE WEALTH, HOW POOR

HEY are sick that surfeit with too much

VICE IMITATES VIRTUE

HERE scarce is vice so simple but assumes
some shew of virtue in its outward parts.

DANGER-PREVENTION

IS wiser to prevent an urgent danger,

'T's wis 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

THE of an blood which it hath fostered.

'HE earth of any state should not be soiled

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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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VIGILANCE

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

EXTERNAL ELEVATION

THEY 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

MEN'S write in water.

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THE TEST OF WISDOM

XTREMES of fortune are true wisdom's test,

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R. CUMBERLAND

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

THE FUTURE

NONE can the turns of Providence foresee,

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or what their own catastrophe may be.

SYMPATHY LESSENS GRIEF

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

E. SPENSER