It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
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