Do not expect good from another's death.

Do not expect good from another's death.

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a
Chappell hard by.
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No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a
Chappell hard by.
[No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel
hard by.]

In spending lies the advantage.

In spending lies the advantage.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be
certain to re-appear.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be
certain to re-appear.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.

Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?

Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it?

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.

Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.