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Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.

To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Much matter decocted into few words.

Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.