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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves. - [Deceit] Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger. - [Law] Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show. - [Greatness] Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful. - [Beauty] Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings. - [Love] Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle. - [Beauty] Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion; so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocence nor confess guilt. - [Malice] Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts. - [Debt] Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue. - [Reproach] Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift. - [Misfortune] Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. - [Cruelty] My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound. - [Woe] No decking sets forth anything so much as affection. - [Affection] No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue. - [Satire : Slander] Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise. - [Children] Nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion of authority; like too strong liquor for a frail glass. - [Authority] Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please. - [Eccentricity] Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. - [Suspicion] Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty. - [Attractiveness] Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. - [Hospitality] Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. - [Reason] Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them. - [Reason] Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error. - [Reason] Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. - [Action] Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties. - [Conceit] Displaying page 4 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8
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