| Quotes |
Topic |
| Action | He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. |
| Advice | Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words. |
| Advice | Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. |
| Advice | Promise is most given when the least is said. |
| Beauty | Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare. |
| Business | Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise. |
| Deeds | His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts. |
| Deeds | So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous Deedes, by which wee live. |
| Extremes | Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. |
| Flattery | Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. |
| Hunger | Enough is as good as a feast. |
| Immortality | 'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. |
| Inspirational | They're only truly great who are truly good. |
| Jewels | Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. |
| Law | Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed. |
| Money | Make ducks and drakes with shillings. |
| Murder | Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. |
| Navigation | And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths, In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass, To put a girdle round about the world. |
| Obscurity | As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. |
| Opinion | His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts. |
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