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The image of God cut in ebony.
Thomas Fuller
We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
Thomas Fuller
A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
William Penn
For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.
John Dryden
Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!
John Milton
To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
William Shakespeare
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
William Congreve
All of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
John Milton
Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
Francis Bacon
Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.
William Shakespeare
For murder though it have no tongue will speak With most miraculous organ.
William Shakespeare
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work.
Thomas Fuller
The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.
William Shakespeare
Beware of desp'rate steps the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.
William Cowper
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
William Hazlitt
He should as he list be able to prove the moon is green cheese.
Sir Thomas More
The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.
John Donne
As full of spirit as the month of May.
William Shakespeare
Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
The ides of March are come.
William Shakespeare
Penny wise pound foolish.
Henry Burton
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
Francis Bacon
Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.
Thomas Fuller
God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
Thomas Fuller
Riches are for spending.
Francis Bacon
I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare
The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."
William Shakespeare
Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
William Shakespeare
Tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
William Shakespeare
The dreadful dead of dark midnight.
William Shakespeare
The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.
John Milton
As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.
Joseph Addison
God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Thomas Fuller
Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?
Nicholas Rowe
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
John Donne
Sickness is felt but health not at all.
Thomas Fuller
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.
Thomas Fuller
Men are April when they woo December when they wed maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
Sir Francis Bacon
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Sir Francis Bacon
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.
William Congreve
He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
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