PATIENCE.

Patience doth conquer by out-suffering all.

Peele.

UNFULFILLED INTENTIONS.

He that intends well, yet deprives himself
Of means to put his good thoughts into deed,
Deceives his purpose of the due reward.

Beaumont and Fletcher.

HOW TO MEET DEATH.

This world death's region is, the other life's; And here, it should be one of our first strifes. So to front death, as each might judge us past it : For good men but see death, the wicked taste it. Ben Jonson.

DANGER-WHAT IS IT?

What is danger

More than the weakness of our apprehensions? A poor cold part o' th' blood: who takes it

hold of?

Cowards and wicked livers: valiant minds

Were made the masters of it.

Beaumont and Fletcher.

THE FRIENDS OF VICE.

Vice many times finds such loud friends,
That preachers are charm'd silent.

Webster.

AMBITION AN IDOL.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings
Great minds are carried only to extreme;
To be sublimely great, or to be nothing.

Southerne.

A RIGHT GENTLEMAN.

Measure not thy carriage by any man's
eye,
Thy speech by no man's ear; but be resolute
And confident in doing and saying;
And this is the grace of a right gentleman.

THE MOST PERFECT PRAISE.

Chapman.

Men speak ill of thee; so they be ill men.
If they spake worse, 'twere better, for of such
To be dispraised is the most perfect praise.
What can his censure hurt me, whom the world
Hath censured vile before me.

Ben Jonson

COWARDICE.

A hundred times in life a coward dies.

VIRTUE IN WOMAN.

Marston.

A woman's virtue, in her lifetime, writes
The epitaph all covet on their minds.

Ford.

CAUSELESS ANGER.

There is not in nature

A thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, As doth intemperate anger.

Webster.

MAN NATURALLY A COWARD.

All mankind is one of these two cowards:
Either to wish to die when he should live,
Or live when he should die.

Howard.

GREATNESS A BUBBLE.

In all our quest of greatness,

Like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, We follow after bubbles blown in th' air.

Webster.

FLATTERY INJURIOUS.

A flatter'd prince soon turns the prince of fools.

Ben Jonson.

LOVE BEGAT OF KNOWLEDGE.

Knowledge first begets benevolence,

Benevolence breeds friendship, friendship love.

Ben Jonson.

CRAFT ITS OWN PUNISHMENT.

Craft once known,

Doth teach fools wit; leaves the deceivers none.

Middleton.

COMMENTATORS.

Commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candles to the sun.

Young.

A MODERATE LIFE.

I meddle with no man's business but my own; I rise in a morning early, study moderately,

Eat and drink cheerfully, live soberly,

Take my innocent pleasures freely.

Otway.

FALSEHOOD OF FLATTERY.

-O thou world, great nurse of flattery, Why dost thou tip men's tongues with golde words,

And poise their deeds with weight of heavy lead, That fair performance cannot follow promise? Oh, that a man might hold the heart's close book And choke the lavish tongue, when it doth utter The breath of falsehood, not character'd there! Edward the Third,

REFLECTIONS IN A RUIN.

I do love these ancient ruins :

We never tread upon them, but we set
Our foot upon some rev'rend history;
And questionless, here in this open court,
Which now lies naked to the injuries
Of stormy weather, some lie interr'd, who
Loved the church so well, and gave so largely to't,
They thought it should have canopied their bones
Till doomsday: but all things have their end;
Churches and cities, which have diseases like to

men,

Must have like death that we have.

Webster.