Occupation: Poet Birth: November 30, 1554 Death: October 17, 1586
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death..
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes..
High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world..
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion..
There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking..
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable..
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory..
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage..
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bu….
Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight..
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him..
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness..
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits..
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself..
If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage,….
Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error..
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves..
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude..
Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom..
Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot..
Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum..