OF DEATH
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OF DEATH
22
Dec
MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
OF TRUTH
22
Dec
What is truth?” said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting.
OF AMBITION
22
Dec
AMBITION is like choler; which is an humour that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped.