All these threatening storms, which, like impregnate Clouds, hover o'er our heads, will (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
people
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
truth
She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.
mind truth art
A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.
fame man death
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
fame men
Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.
worth
The blackest Ink of Fate, sure, was my Lot, And, when she writ my Name, she made a blot.
fate
There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold togather.
fortune
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