Occupation: Poet Birth: November 30, 1554 Death: October 17, 1586
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity..
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of ….
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them..
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way..
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency..
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love..
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate..
Great is not great to the greater..
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and ther….
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case..
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking..
For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also….
The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, ….
Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts..
The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune..
You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness..
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound..
The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear..
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant pa….
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the histor….
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts..