Occupation: Poet Birth: November 30, 1554 Death: October 17, 1586
Either I will find a way, or I will make one..
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you..
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity..
O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!.
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them..
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..
As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the….
Thinking nurseth thinking..
Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can s….
Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error..
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves..
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who ….
Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason..
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please..
As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset..
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound..
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts..
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue..
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!.
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways..
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction.