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He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel, her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

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.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

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.

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, 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.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

Enough is as good as a feast.

'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.