Good take heed
Doth surely speed. [ Proverb ]

To give and to have,
Doth a brain crave. [ Proverb ]

Beauty doth varnish age. [ William Shakespeare ]

How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower. [ Watts ]

The trickling rain doth fall
Upon us one and all;
The south-wind kisses
The saucy milk-maid's cheek.
The nun's, demure and meek,
Nor any misses. [ E. C. Stedman ]

One doth harm,
And another bears the blame. [ Proverb ]

Bell, thou soundest merrily,
When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
Bell, thou soundest solemnly,
When, on Sabbath morning,
Fields deserted lie! [ Longfellow ]

Who the race of men doth love,
Loves also him above. [ Lewis Morris ]

Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live. [ Jonson, on Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland ]

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt, I love. [ William Shakespeare ]

The fool doth think he is wise. [ Shakespeare ]

He is handsome that handsome doth. [ Proverb ]

Custom doth make dotards of us all. [ Carlyle ]

He is gentle that doth gentle deeds. [ Chaucer ]

Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for nought? [ Shakespeare ]

How use doth breed a habit in a man! [ William Shakespeare ]

To be wroth with one we love,
Doth work like madness in the brain. [ Coleridge ]

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow
In the brain as mischief or remorse. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Grief is a tattered tent
Where through God's light doth shine. [ Lucy Larcom ]

The eternal feminine doth draw us on. [ Goethe ]

The readinesse of doing doth express
No other but the doer's willingnesse. [ Herrick ]

It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
It is a comforter. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold all is not that doth golden seem. [ Spenser ]

A light wife doth make a heavy husband [ William Shakespeare ]

This sickness doth infect
The very life-blood of our enterprise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Think not, dream not that thou livest,
If thy hand doth idly lie,
If thy soul for ever longing,
Yearn but for the by and bye. [ M. W. Wood ]

Who after his transgression doth repent
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. [ Herrick ]

One mouth doth nothing without another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

All, that in this world is great or gay.
Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. [ Spenser ]

He doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves. [ Jul. Caes ]

O, if so much beauty doth reveal
Itself in every vein of life and nature.
How beautiful must be the Source itself,
The Ever Bright One. [ Tegner ]

True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie.
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind. [ Walter Scott ]

He that doth the ravens feed.
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. [ William Shakespeare ]

One doth not know
How much an ill word may empoison liking. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Sc.1 ]

Silk doth quench the fire in the kitchen. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history
Fully unfold. [ William Shakespeare ]

A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal,
His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch,
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. [ William Shakespeare ]

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. [ William Shakespeare ]

Earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. [ William Shakespeare ]

All foreign wisdom doth amount to this,
To take all that is given, whether wealth,
Or love, or language; nothing comes amiss;
A good digestion turneth all to health. [ Herbert ]

Fortune, not wisdom, human life doth sway. [ Cicero ]

The deepest rivers make least din,
The silent soule doth most abound in care. [ Earl of Stirling ]

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. [ William Shakespeare ]

Murder itself is past all expiation,
The greatest crime that nature doth abhor. [ Goffe ]

For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For soule is forme and doth the bodie make. [ Spenser ]

The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. [ William Shakespeare ]

You take my house, when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

Upon her wit doth earthly honours wait,
And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown. [ William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II. Sc.1 ]

For where's the state beneath the Firmament,
That doth excell the Bees for Government? [ Du Bartas ]

God complains not, but doth what is fitting. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The soul,
The particle of God sent down to man,
Which doth in turn reveal the world and God. [ Lewis Morris ]

Sorrow for past ills, doth restore frail man
To his first innocence. [ Nabbs ]

Oftentimes, excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse;
As patches, set upon a little breach.
Discredit more in hiding of the fault,
Than did the fault before it was so patched. [ William Shakespeare ]

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. [ Herbert ]

We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Our trust far more than ten ear witnesses. [ Herrick ]

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

Look not on pleasures as they come, but go.
Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span
Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe.
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains;
If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. [ George Herbert ]

Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious painter doth pursue
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks.
And tracks thee dancing down thy waterbreaks. [ Wordsworth ]

O, how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem.
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem,
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. [ William Shakespeare ]

The year doth nothing else but open and shut. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]

Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. [ Sir J. Harrington ]

The wine in the bottle doth not quench thirst. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who doth his own business fouls not his hands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess.
The might - the majesty of Loveliness? [ Byron ]

If she do frown, it is not in hate of you,
But rather to beget more love in you:
If she do chide, it is not to have you gone;
For why, the fools are mad if left alone.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For - get you gone - she doth not mean - away. [ William Shakespeare ]

He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. [ William Shakespeare ]

Her words were like a stream of honey fleeting.
That which doth softly trickle from the hive,
Able to melt the hearer's heart unweeting,
And eke to make the dead again alive. [ Spenser ]

Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,
Which, with pain purchased doth inherit pain. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great honours are great burdens; but on whom
They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. [ Ben Jonson ]

My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
And makes as healthful music. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Who praiseth St. Peter doth not blame St. Paul. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest.
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high.
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty;
Who doth the world so gloriously behold,
That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

O nightingale, that on yon blooming spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still,
Thou with fresh hope the lovers heart doth fill! [ Milton ]

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]

So doth Thy right hand guide us through the world
Wherein we stumble. [ Robert Browning ]

In cloths, cheap handsomeness doth bear the bell. [ George Herbert ]

Grief finds some ease by him that like doth bear. [ Spenser ]

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]

Giving much to the poor doth enrich a man's store. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble minds,)
To scorn delights and live laborious days. [ Milton ]

Working and making a fire doth discretion require. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The death of a young wolf doth never come too soon. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway. [ Spenser ]

His life is paralleled
Even with the stroke and line of his great justice;
He doth with holy abstinence subdue
That in himself which he spurs on his power
To qualify in others. [ William Shakespeare ]

Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

He that doth not plough at home won't plough abroad. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there
Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere. [ George Herbert ]

To will what God doth will, that is the only science
That gives us any rest. [ Malherbe ]

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. [ William Shakespeare ]

How in the name of thrift doth he rake this together? [ William Shakespeare ]

While the discreet advise the fool doth his business. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep.
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams.
And into glory peep. [ Vaughan ]

Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]

This sorrow's heavenly; It strikes where it doth love. [ William Shakespeare ]

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar as a king. [ Decker ]

Many a lash in the dark doth conscience give the wicked. [ Boston ]

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He a beast doth die that hath done no good to his country. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Greatness doth not approach him who is forever looking down. [ Hitopadesa ]

One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow. [ William Shakespeare ]

It takes much from the account to which his sin doth amount. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

He is a minister who doth not behave with insolence and pride. [ Hitopadesa ]

No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

He that would have what he hath not should do what he doth not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No man doth safely rule but he that hath learned gladly to obey. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands. [ Lowell ]

Beauty itself doth itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. [ William Shakespeare ]

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things. [ Joanna Baillie ]

There I'll rest, as after much turmoil a blessed soul doth in Elysium. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made. [ Sir T. Overbury ]

Joy, being altogether wanting. It doth remember me the more of sorrow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders. [ William Shakespeare ]

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Jealousy - it is a green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. [ William Shakespeare ]

Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue. [ Bacon ]

Let me wipe off this honorable dew, that silverly doth progress on thy cheeks. [ William Shakespeare ]

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. [ William Shakespeare ]

True gladness doth not always speak; joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. [ Ben Jonson ]

For beauty is the bait which with delight doth man allure, for to enlarge his kind. [ Spenser ]

If a man read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. [ Bacon ]

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. [ Bible ]

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit; but God to man doth speak in solitude. [ John Stuart Blackie ]

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, and delves the parallels in beauty's brow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nought so vile that on the earth doth live, but to the earth some special good doth give. [ William Shakespeare ]

We do pray for mercy; and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, by that sweet ornament which truth doth give! [ Shakespeare ]

Too much magnifying of man or matter doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn. [ Bacon ]

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. [ Webster ]

The cripple, tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away. [ Shakespeare ]

Every effect doth, after a sort, contain, or at least resemble, the cause from which it proceedeth. [ Hooker ]

Who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea? [ William Shakespeare ]

This iron world brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate. [ Spenser ]

Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbor doth me more harm than either of them both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that boasts of his ancestors, the founders and raisers of a family, doth confess that he hath less virtue. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat wake the god of day. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. [ Bacon ]

A beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it. [ Clarendon ]

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! [ Alexander Smith ]

No man beholdeth prosperity who doth not encounter danger; but having encountered danger, if he surviveth, he beholdeth it. [ Hitopadesa ]

The earth doth not cover our beloved, but heaven hath received him; let us tarry for awhile, and we shall be in his company. [ St. Basil ]

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over doth endure the pains of evil destiny. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth? [ Hitopadesa ]

Take a walk to refresh yourself with the open air, which inspired fresh doth exceedingly recreate the lungs, heart and vital spirits. [ Harvey ]

Be not liquorish after fame, found by experience to carry a trumpet, that doth for the most part congregate more enemies than friends. [ Osborn ]

Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man. [ Hooker ]

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty. [ Willis ]

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it doth singe yourself. We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. [ Cervantes ]

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor. [ Feltham ]

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. [ Ben Jonson ]

Many favors which God giveth us, ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness, for through prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair; and at their heels, a huge infectious troop of pale distemperatures and foes to life. [ William Shakespeare ]

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be! [ Horace Bushnell ]

Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so, with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. [ William Shakespeare ]