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430 Happy are they that hear their detractions, and 6-ii. 3.

431 Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak

36-ii. 2.

432

With most miraculous organ.

Woe doth the heavier sit,
Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.

17-i. 3.

433 Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues

We write in water.

25-iv. 2.

434. When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. 6-iii. 3.

435 At seventeen years many their fortunes seek; But at fourscore, it is too late a week.

436

Foul deeds will rise,

10-ii. 3.

Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's

eyes.*

437 One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.

36-i. 2.

36-iv. 7.

18-v. 4.

438 Time, that takes survey of all the world,

Must have a stop.

439 It is as easy to count atomies,† as to resolve the 10-iii. 2.

440

propositions of a lover.

Affection,

Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood
Of what it likes, or loathes.

9-iv. 1.

441 Then all too late comes counsel to be heard, Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard.

17-ii. 1.

442 Virtue cannot so innoculate our old stock, but 36-iii. 1.

we shall relish of it.

443 'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes, As 'tis to laugh at them.

444 Thieves for their robbery have authority, When judges steal themselves.

28-iv. 1.

* Numb. xxxii. 23.

5-ii. 2.

† Motes.

† Foolish.

445 It is a great sin, to swear unto a sin; But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

33-v. 3.

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450 Scorn at first, makes after-love the more.

2-iii. 1.

handicrafts-men.

451 O miserable age! Virtue is not regarded in 22-iv. 2.

great ones eat up the little ones.

452 Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the 33-ii. 1.

453 O, how full of briars is this working-day world! 10-i. 3.

454 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy,

As passes colouring.

Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy.

455 Here's such ado to make no stain a stain,

456 Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

15-iii. 2.

13-ii. 2.

4-ii. 5.

457 Merry larks are ploughman's clocks.

8-v. 2.

458 I run before my horse to market.

24-i. 1.

30-iv. 4.

459 To business that we love, we rise betime,

460

And go to it with delight.

Brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

36-ii. 2.

461 A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king; and eat of the fish that hath fed of that

worm.

36-iv. 3.

flood?

462 What need the bridge much broader than the 6-i. 1.

and ill together.

463 The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good 11-iv. 3.

464 Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the

lineaments of nature.

10-i. 2.

465 Slander lives upon succession;

For ever housed, where it once gets possession.

14-iii. 1.

466 Every fault's condemn'd, ere it be done.

5-ii. 2.

4-v. 1.

467 'Gainst knave and thief men shut their gate.

468

469

470

It is not meet That every nice* offence should bear his com29-iv. 3.

ment.

Not evert
The justice and the truth o' the question carries
The due o' the verdict with it.
25-v. 1.

We are not the first,

Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the

worst.

471. To offend and judge, are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

34-v. 3.

9-ii. 9.

472 All's not offence that indiscretion finds, And dotage terms so.

34-ii. 4.

473

Feasts

In every mess have folly, and the feeders
Digest it with a custom.

13-iv. 3.

474 Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is

oft led by the nose with gold.

13-iv. 3.

* Trifling.

† Always.

475

'Tis safer to

Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born.

13-i. 2.

476

Men, that make

Envy, and crooked malice, nourishment,
Dare bite the best.

25-v. 2.

477 Pity is the virtue of the law,

And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 27-iii. 5.

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482 How much better is it to weep at joy, than to

joy at weeping?

6-i. 1.

483

Our very eyes

Are sometimes like our judgments, blind.

31-iv. 2.

484 Foolery does walk about the orb, like the sun; 4-iii. 1.

it shines every where.

485 Love yourself: and in that love,

Not unconsider'd leave your honour. 25-i. 2.

486 The art of our necessities is strange,

487

That can make vile things precious. 34-iii. 2.

To be wise, and love,

Exceeds man's might.

26-iii. 2.

488 We know what we are, but know not what we 36-iv. 5.

may be.‡

* i. e. A virtuous mind may recede from goodness in the execution of a royal commission.

† Interest.

Of the truth of this Hazael, king of Syria, affords a striking instance. See 2 Kings, viii. 12, 13.

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Can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.

31-iii. 6.

490 Who cannot be crushed with a plot? 11-iv. 3.

But in battalions.

491 When sorrows come, they come not single spies, 36-iv. 5.

492

We are such stuff

As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

1-iv. 1.

unquietness ?

493 What is he for a fool, that betroths himself to 6-i. 3.

without deserving.

494 Reputation;-oft got without merit, and lost 37-ii. 3.

495

Briefly die their joys,

That place them on the truth of girls and boys.

31-v. 5.

496

Than faults may shake our frames.

We are made to be no stronger

497 When good-will is show'd, though it come too

5-ii. 4.

short,

The actor may plead pardon.

30-ii. 5.

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501 Notes of sorrow, out of tune, are worse Than priests and fanes that lie.

31-iv. 2.

502 Put armour on thine ears, and on thine eyes.

503 More pity, that the eagle should be mew'd,* While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

* Confined,

24-i. 1.

27-iv. 3.

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