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There have been many great men that have flattered the people, who never loved them; and there be many that they have loved, they know not wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground.

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There is no sure foundation set in blood;
No certain life achieved by others' death.

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Truth, beauty's ornament.

28-ii. 2.

16-iv. 2.

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem,
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye,
As the perfumed tincture of the roses;
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly,

When summer's breath their masked buds discloses;
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade;
Die to themselves; Sweet roses do not so;

Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made.

298

Poems.

Time.

The end crowns all;

26-iv. 5.

And that old common arbitrator, Time,

Will one day end it.

299

Justice due to Heaven.

If the great gods be just, they shall assist
The deeds of justest men.

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30-ii. I.

To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in it, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks." 30-ii. 7.

"The being called into a huge sphere, and not being seen to move in it,' resembles sockets in a face where eyes should be [but are not]; which empty sockets, or holes without eyes, pitifully disfigure the

countenance.

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Heaven is above all; there sits a Judge,
That no king can corrupt.

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25-iii. 1.

O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous
Is that temptation, that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.

303 The danger of relying on our own strength. [Lie in the lap of sin,] and not mean harm? It is hypocrisy against the devil:

They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,

5-ii. 2.

The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.°

304

Pomp and power, their end.

37-iv. 1.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

305

Equality of human life.

23-v. 2.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else, to fat us; and we fat ourselves for maggots: Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variable service; two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. 36-iv. 3.

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'Tis better to be much abused,

Than but to know 't a little.

307

37-iii. 3.

The clearest sight without wisdom, blindness.

What an infinite mock is this, that a man should have the best use of eyes, to see the way of blindness!

308

31-v. 4.

A guilty conscience.

Unnatural deeds

Do breed unnatural troubles: Infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

• Matt. iv. 7.

15-v. 1.

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The sleeping, and the dead,

Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood,
That fears a painted devil.

310

The variableness of mankind.

15-ii. 2.

The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then
We pout upon the morning, are unapt
To give or to forgive; but when we have stuff'd
These pipes, and these conveyances of our blood,
With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls
Than in our priest-like fasts.
28-v. 1.

311

Confident security dangerous.

The wound of peace is surety,

Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd

The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst.

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26-ii. 2.

Sweet love, changing his property,

Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate.

17-iii. 2.

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5-ii. 2.

With less respect than we do minister

To our gross selves?

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What viler thing upon the earth, than friends,
Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends!

316

Ambition.

Thriftless ambition, that will raven up

Thine own life's means!

27-iv. 3.

15-ii. 4.

P This was the case of Queen Elizabeth after the execution of

Essex.

317

Retribution.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us."

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Our size of sorrow,

34-v. 3.

Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great
As that which makes it.

30-iv. 13.

319

Time, its fleetness.

It is ten o'clock:

Thus may we see, how the world wags:
'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine;
And after an hour more, 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale.

320

Wickedness, its own reward.

10-ii. 7.

What mischiefs work the wicked ones; Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!

321

Earthly glory.

O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low?

22-ii. 1.

Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Shrunk to this little measure?

322

Contention.

When two authorities are up,

Neither supreme, how soon confusion

May enter 'twixt the gap of both, and take

The one by the other.

323

God's procedure.

29-iii. 1.

28-iii. 1.

You snatch some hence for little faults; that's love,
To have them fall no more: you some permit
To second ills with ills, each elder worse;
And make them dread it to the doer's thrift.

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Crime revealed.

Blood will have blood:

Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs, and understood relations, have

By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.

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Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds
Where it should guard.

327

Circumspection in bounty.

'Tis pity, bounty had not eyes behind;

15-iii. 4.

22-v. 2.

That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind.

328

Discretion of age.

27-i. 2.

'Tis not good that children should know any wickedness: old folks have discretion, as they say,

and know the world.

329

3-ii. 2.

Fortitude.

Yield not thy neck

To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

23-iii. 3.

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There's none

27-i. 2.

Can truly say, he gives, if he receives.

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Human life.

33-iv. 1.

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Reason thus with life:

A breath thou art,

(Servile to all the skiey influences,)

That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,
Hourly afflict: merely, thou art Death's fool;
For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun,

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