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“He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.”
“I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.”
“Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.”
“To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.”
“Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.”
“Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.”
“Let us love temperately, things violent last not.”
“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.”
“True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.”
“He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.”
“Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.”
“Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.”