If he were / To be made honest by an act of parliament, / I should not alter in my faith of him. |
If he were / To be made honest by an act of parliament, / I should not alter in my faith of him. |
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick |
If you be sick, your own thoughts will make you sick |
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. |
In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want. |
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be |
It is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make men better be. |
Lady, it is to be presumed, / Though art's hid causes are not found, / All is not sweet, all is not sound. |
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink |
Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell |
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco. |
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! |
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, / Now the sun is laid to sleep, / Seated in thy silver chair, / State in wonted manner keep: / Hesperus entreats thy light, / Goddess, excellently bright. |
Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade. |