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Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.

Let's meet and either do or die.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense of tranquility which religion fails to bestow.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

Beggars must be no choosers.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.

Charity and treating begin at home.

Let them learn first to show pity at home.

'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

My dancing days are done.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him?

Deeds, not words.

All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.