Occupation: Poet Birth: November 30, 1554 Death: October 17, 1586
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciou….
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience..
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger..
Vice is but a nurse of agonies..
There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental..
Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show..
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts..
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them..
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant..
Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed..
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!.
O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!.
With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!.
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason..
Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest..
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers,….
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue..
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us..
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve..
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues..
High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy..