| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ability | A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. |
| Ability | Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. |
| Ambition | For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave. |
| Argument | Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. |
| Bees | Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run. |
| Bells | Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. |
| Birds | A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air. |
| Cheerfulness | A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. |
| Christ | Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone? Had He life, or had He none? If he had not liv'd for thee, Thou hadst died most wretchedly And two deaths had been thy fee. |
| Churches | No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard by. |
| Churches | When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven. |
| Cliches and One Liners | He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. |
| Comparisons | Comparisons are odious. |
| Compromise | A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. |
| Day | Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. |
| Debt | Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. |
| Doves | Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee. |
| Eating | He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. |
| Eating | A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. |
| Eating | Gluttony kills more than the sword. |
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