Occupation: Playwright Birth: June 11, 1572 Death: August 6, 1637
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust..
Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then hi….
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound..
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding..
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak..
No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but hi….
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too..
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator..
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of ….
Cut Men's throats with whisperings..
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat..
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father..
A good life is a main argument..
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; le….
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace..
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not….
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man..
Your highest female grace is silence..
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none..
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment..
All concord's born of contraries..