Occupation: Poet Birth: November 30, 1554 Death: October 17, 1586
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience..
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 ….
I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature..
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle..
Thinking nurseth thinking..
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action..
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns..
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest..
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence..
There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass..
The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world ….
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it..
Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing..
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other..
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness..
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world..
Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind..
The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured fou….
When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all….
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened..