William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley quotes
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“Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.”
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“Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.”
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“A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.”
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“Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.”
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“Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.”
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“Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.”
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“Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.”
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“England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.”
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron BurghleySource : "Famous sayings and their authors". Book by Edward Latham, 1906.
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“What! All this for a song?”
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron BurghleySource : To Queen Elizabeth, on being ordered to make a gratuity of £100 to Spenser in return for some poems, in Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queene' (1751) 'The Life of Mr Edmund Spenser' by Thomas Birch
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Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers
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“[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.”
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“Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.”
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“My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.”
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“There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.”
Source : Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”
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