Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.
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Zum Autor"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."
"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."
"Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of DenmarkIs by a forged process of my deathRankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy father's lifeNow wears his crown."
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece."
"See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out."