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He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
Topic: Action
Source: Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (act V, sc. 1)
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Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.
Topic: Advice
Source: The Gentleman Usher (act IV, sc. 1)
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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Promise is most given when the least is said.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Beauty
Source: All Fools (act I, sc. 1)
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Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make
heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
Topic: Business
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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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.
Topic: Deeds
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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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.
Topic: Deeds
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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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.
Topic: Extremes
Source: None
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Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Topic: Flattery
Source: None
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Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools.
Topic: Folly
Source: All Fools (act V, sc. 1, l. 292)
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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.
Topic: Fortune
Source: All Fools (act V, sc. 1)
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Enough is as good as a feast.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Eastward Ho! (act III, sc. 2), written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston
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'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
Topic: Immortality
Source: Byron's Conspiracy (act I, sc. 1, l. 254)
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They're only truly great who are truly good.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Topic: Jewels
Source: An Humorous Day's Mirth
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Who to himself is law, no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Topic: Law
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act II, sc. 1)
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Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Topic: Money
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.
The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
Topic: Murder
Source: The Widow's Tears (act V, sc. IV)
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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.
Topic: Navigation
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. I, l. 20)
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As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Topic: Obscurity
Source: Hymns and Epigrams of Homer--The Translator's Epilogue (l. 74)
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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.
Topic: Opinion
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel
For each man's good.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: Bussy d'Ambois
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I pray, what flowers are these?
The pansy this,
O, that's for lover's thoughts.
Topic: Pansies
Source: All Fools (act II, sc. 1, l. 248)
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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.
Topic: Passion
Source: Monsieur D'Olive (act V, sc. 1, l. 8)
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Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Topic: Pearls
Source: An Humorous Day's Mirth
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Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
Topic: Pride
Source: Eastward Ho!
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Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
Topic: Pride
Source: Eastward Ho!
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Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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As good as a play.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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A nail in the wound.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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To have a smattering knowledge of anything.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by
some trifling performance. A carpet knight.]
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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Enough is as good as a feast.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Eastward Ho! (act III, sc. 2), written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston
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Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Sir Gyles Goosecappe
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Archers ever
Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid
(Archer of archers both in men and women),
Be worse provided than a common archer?
Topic: Prudence
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act II, sc. 1)
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Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed
over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no
greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out
on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would
a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia] for we are all
one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more
comfort of them there than we do here.
Topic: Scotland
Source: Eastward Ho! (act III, sc. 2)
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Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.
Topic: Virtue
Source: Monsieur D'Olive (act I, sc. 1, l. 127)
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Words writ in waters.
Topic: Words
Source: Revenge for Honour (act V, sc. 2)
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Each natural agent works but to this end,--
To render that it works on like itself.
Topic: Work
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act III, sc. 1)
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