The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
Fair words never hurt the tongue.
Tis immortality to die aspiring.
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
Love is Natures second sun.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
Fate's such a shrewish thing.
An ill weed grows apace.
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed.
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
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