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Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road. - [Action] All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth. - [Slander] Ambition is the mind's immodesty. - [Ambition] Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power. - [Ambition] Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. - [Anger] Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave. - [Ambition] Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. - [Calamities] Calamity was ordained for man. - [Calamities] Faith lights us through the dark to Deity. - [Faith] Fame, as a river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off; so exemplary writers depend not upon the gratitude of the world. - [Fame] Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. - [Fame] For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least. - [Comfort] Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity. - [Credulity] Honor is the moral conscience of the great. - [Honor] How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. - [Grief] How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. - [Calamities] If mercy were not mingled with His power, this wretched world could not subsist one hour. - [Mercy] It is the wit, the policy, of sin to hate those men whom we have abused. - [Abuse] Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny. - [Calamities] Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run. - [Thought] Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends. - [Cause] Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes. - [Eyes] Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave. - [Ambition] This Florentine's a very saint, so meek And full of courtesy, that he would lend The devil his cloak, and stand i' th' rain himself. - [Courtesy] To be rich be diligent; move on Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth; Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone; And make the spring straight bury all her birth. Rich are the diligent who can command Time--nature's stock. - [Diligence] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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