Occupation: Poet Birth: November 30, 1554 Death: October 17, 1586
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care..
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious o….
It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it..
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear..
In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey..
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you..
Either I will find a way, or I will make one..
My true love hath my heart, and I have his.
It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy..
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity..
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place..
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray..
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk..
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly..
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge..
The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it..
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll..
Scoffing cometh not of wisdom..
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws..
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets..