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WHosoever writes a modern History, and follows truth too near the heels, may chance have his teeth struck out.
The dignity of truth is lost in much protesting.
No Hell so low, which lust and women cannot lead unto.
The world is a theatre of theft, great rivers, small brooks, and they the ocean.
True love is a servant, brutish lust a tyrant.
Duty must not assume the name of merit.
Unequal marriage is not love but lust.
Revenge is lost, if men profess they hate.
Mischief doth ever end where it begins.
Where distaste begins, there friendship ends.
When a woman hath lost her chastity, she hath no more to lose.
Too much indulgence is not love but hate.
Reason is the mistress of experience.
Nothing is hard to them that dare to die.
He is next in right that hath the strongest power.
Blinde is the censure of uncertainties.
Time wears out what art and nature cannot bring about.
Great sorrow is always dumb.
Women are like to Venice-glasses, one crack spoils them.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
The man that would have sold the lions skin whilst the beast lived, was killed with hunting of him.
When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks.
Hope is a bate, it covers any hook.
Libels are stifled with taking no notice of them.
Good wits are greatest in extremity.
Mischiess seed like beasts till they be fat, and then they bleed.
The worst deeds are made good with good success.