| Quotes |
Topic |
| Pride | She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty. |
| Pride | I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. |
| Pride | O world, how apt the poor are to be proud. |
| Printing | Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school, and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill. |
| Prison | Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit, But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself. |
| Prison | I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world, And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out. |
| Procrastination | In delay there lies no plenty. |
| Prophecy | O my prophetic soul! My uncle? |
| Prophecy | There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. |
| Prosperity | There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. |
| Prosperity | Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. |
| Proverbs | All is well ended, if the suit be won. |
| Proverbs | Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none. |
| Proverbs | Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises. |
| Proverbs | We must every one be a man of his own fancy. |
| Proverbs | The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together. |
| Proverbs | The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together, our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. |
| Proverbs | Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave. |
| Proverbs | The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. |
| Proverbs | What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again. |
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