Breach of custom is breach of all. By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death Will seize the doctor too. Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. By and by is easily said. Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. Courage mounteth with occasion. Covering discretion with a coat of folly; Civil dissension is a viperous worm, Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, Corruption wins not more than honesty. Checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd; As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. Ceremony was but devis'd at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shewn ; But where there is true friendship, there needs none. Common chances common men can bear. Cowards die many times before their deaths; Celerity is never more admired Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base: Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace. Court holy-water in a dry house is better than rain-water out o' door. Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye; And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Conscience does make cowards of us all. Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. |