Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.

If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good read more

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

So many men in Court and so many strangers.

So many men in Court and so many strangers.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
bus to take care read more

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
bus to take care of his tools.

It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.

It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.