"Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me."
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"The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage."
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"If we still advise we shall never do."
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"I have no desire to make windows into men's souls."
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"I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life."
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"[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment."
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"A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past."
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"It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting."
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"He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors."
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"Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight."
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"Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you."
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"I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory."
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"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."
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"I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception."
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"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me."
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"Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government."
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"O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!"
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"I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution."
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"Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow."
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"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
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