Occupation: Poet Birth: November 30, 1554 Death: October 17, 1586
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?.
Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeeds true friends you are That do not leave your left friend at the wurst, But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst ….
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstand….
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write..
**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about….
Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings..
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution..
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail..
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens..
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself..
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood..
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses..
Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims..
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding..
The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be ….
How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and su….
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves..
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead..
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker..
Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince..
I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience..