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Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue. - Catiline (act III, sc. 3) [Mischief] The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. - Catiline (act III, sc. 5) [Guilt] Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. His cares must still be double to his joys, In any dignity. - Catiline--His Conspiracy (act III, sc. 1, l. 1) [Honor] True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. Nor would I have Virtue a popular regard pursue: Let them be good that love me, though but few. - Cynthia's Revels (act III, sc. 2) [Friends] All concord's born of contraries. - Cynthia's Revels (act V, sc. 2) [Variety] Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws. - Cynthia's Revels (act V, sc. 3) [Royalty] Our whole life is like a play. - Discoveries de Vita Humana [Life] I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand. - Discoveries--De Shakespeare nostrat [Shakespeare] A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. - Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps [Royalty] They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom. - Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps [Royalty] Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. - Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps [Navigation] Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, 'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink. - Entertainments--The Penates [Laughter] Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. - Epicaene; or, The Silent Woman (act I, sc. 1, song) [Apparel] Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well; that is to understand. - Epigram (1) [Books] When I would know thee . . . my thought looks Upon thy well-made choice of friends and books; Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends In making thy friends books, and thy books friends. - Epigram (86) [Books] Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbor give To more virtue that doth live. If at all she had a fault, Leave it buried in this vault. - Epigram (CXXIV, to Lady Elizabeth L.H.) [Epitaphs] But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine, Which is the mermaid's now, but shall be mine. - Epigram CI [Wine and Spirits] Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. - Epigram CI [Eating] No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night. - Epigram CI [Regret] Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met. - Epigram CI [Drinking] Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen, If we can get her, full of eggs, and then, Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney Is not to be despaired of for our money; And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks, The sky not falling, think we may have larks. - Epigram CI [Eating] He that departs with his own honesty For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy. - Epigram II [Honesty] Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice, almighty gold. - Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland [Money] Thou art but gone before, Whither the world must follow. - Epitaph on Sir John Roe (p. 190), in Dodd's "Epigrammatists" [Death] See and to be seen. - Epithalamion (st. 3, l. 4) [Sight] Displaying page 5 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8
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