Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli

No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.
William Tyndale

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
Donald Cargill

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Andrew Marvell

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
William Alexander

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
Alan Bleasdale

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
Mark Akenside

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
John Harington

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Ovid

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Oliver Cromwell

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
George Chapman

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
John Denham