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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.[][]
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.[][]
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.[][]
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.[][]
Thought is free.[][]
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.[][]
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.[][]
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.[][]
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.[][]
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.[][]
Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.[][]
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. [][]
For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.[][]
My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.[][]
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.[][]
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.[][]
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.[][]
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. [][]
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.[][]
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.[][]
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (As You Like It)[][]
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.[][]
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. [][]
They do not love that do not show their love.[][]
The course of true love never did run smooth.[][]
Those that are good manners at thecourt are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable atthe court.[][]
I do desire we may be better strangers.[][]
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.[][]
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.[][]
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.[][]
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