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William Alexander, Earl of Stirling

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The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
EARL OF STERLING I must plough my furrow alone.
EARL OF ROSEBERY What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sacrifice to the Graces.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
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WILLIAM OF OCCAM Manners maketh man.
WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
WILLIAM OF CONCHES [They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can m...
WILLIAM OF CONCHES Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignora...
WILLIAM OF CONCHES Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
WILLIAM OF OCCAM So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
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WILLIAM OF OCKHAM It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below
ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of F...
WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY They cast their nets in Galilee, just off the hills of brown; Such happy, simple fisherfolk, before ...
WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON 'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing. - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,
ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, ...
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON The multitude is always in the wrong.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on, Who never said a foolish...
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on, Who never said a foolish thing...
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.
LIONEL CRANFIELD, EARL OF MIDDLESEX Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting da...
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON His withered fist still knocking at Death's door.
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THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET So, in this way of writing without thinking,/ Thou hast a strange alacrity in sinking.
THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET A creature not too bright nor good For human nature's daily food.
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WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE No check, no stay this streamlet fears: How merrily it goes! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years...
WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE Every bullet has its billet.
WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it
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WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the leng...
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that'...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.
FREDERICK HOWARD, FIFTH EARL OF CARLISLE Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.
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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
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