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• Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
• To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive…
• Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the…
• The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
• Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
• Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
• My true love hath my heart, and I have his
• A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
• The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor…
• It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
• Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
• High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

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