Quotes by English Authors - Page 19

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
William Penn
To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies Til the dappled dawn doth rise.
John Milton
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.
John Donne
Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.
John Day
This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.
William Shakespeare
Come what may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt
Conversion turns the bias of the WILL both as to means and end. The intentions of the will are altered. Now the man has new ends and designs. He now intends God above all, and desires and designs nothing in all the world, so much as that Christ may be magnified in him. He counts himself more happy in this than in all that the earth could yield, that he may be serviceable to Christ, and bring Him glory. This is the mark he aims at, that the name of Jesus may be great in the world.
Joseph Alleine
But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
William Shakespeare
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
William Shakespeare
Ships are but boards sailors but men.
William Shakespeare
Ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
William Shakespeare
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.
Francis Bacon
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough;But riches fineless is as poor as winterTo him that ever fears he shall be poor;–Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defendFrom jealousy!
William Shakespeare
We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be the feast of our graces, and the funeral of our corruptions; that it may not only be a sign to represent, but an instrument to convey, Christ to us, and a seal to assure us of our heavenly jointure [union].
Thomas Watson
Nought’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content.
William Shakespeare
Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?
William Shakespeare
There was never a tutor that did professly teach Felicity, though that be the mistress of all other sciences. Nor did any of us study these things but as aliena, which we ought to have studied as our enjoyments. We studied to inform our knowledge, but knew not for what end we so studied. And for lack of aiming at a certain end we erred in the manner. Howbeit there we received all those seeds of knowledge that were afterwards improved; and our souls were awakened to a discerning of their faculties, and exercise of their powers.
Thomas Traherne
Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name
John Donne
Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
Elizabeth I
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a Sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
John Donne
If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.
Thomas Manton
Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone.
William Shakespeare
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare
In yonder nether world where shall I seekHis bright appearances or footstep trace?For though I fled him angry, yet recalledTo life prolonged and promised race I nowGladly behold though but His utmost skirtsOf glory, and far off His steps adore.
John Milton
earn what you can since everything's for sale
Geoffrey Chaucer
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Francis Bacon
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
There's a time for all things.
William Shakespeare
There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it.What our contempts doth often hurl from us,We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,By revolution lowering, does becomeThe opposite of itself. She's good, being gone.The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.
William Shakespeare
That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following.
William Shakespeare
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
William Shakespeare
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
William Shakespeare
Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.
George Savile Halifax
Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow
William Shakespeare
But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they owe nothing and who can do them no harm; they do so for no other reason except that they are rich, knowing full well that they are so mean and tightfisted that they will certainly never give them one red cent during their whole lives.
Thomas More
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
John Milton
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,Men were deceivers ever,-One foot in sea and one on shore,To one thing constant never.
William Shakespeare
You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!
William Congreve
Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
John Milton
He embraces all things that are lovely: he seals up the sum of all loveliness. Things that shine as single stars with a particular glory, all meet in Christ as a glorious constellation. Col. 1:19, "It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell." Cast your eyes among all created beings, survey the universe: you will observe strength in one, beauty in a second, faithfulness in a third, wisdom in a fourth; but you shall find none excelling in them all as Christ does. Bread has one quality, water another, raiment another, medicine another; but none has them all in itself as Christ does. He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in him, 1 Cor. 1:30
John Flavel
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
Sir Henry Wotton
What's done cannot be undone.
William Shakespeare
O mother, mother!What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,The gods look down, and this unnatural sceneThey laugh at. O my mother, mother! O!You have won a happy victory to Rome;But, for your son,--believe it, O, believe it,Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd,If not most mortal to him.
William Shakespeare
I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
William Shakespeare
Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?
John Milton
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,For they in thee a thousand errors note; But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,Who in despite of view is pleased to dote
William Shakespeare
Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are.
William Shakespeare
A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison
I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Elizabeth I
There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...
William Shakespeare
And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion.
William Shakespeare
And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus, ‘It is all that is made.’ I marveled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so have all things their beginning by the love of God.In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second that God loves it. And the third, that God keeps it.
Julian of Norwich
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
William Shakespeare
Let me feel how thy pulses beat.
Thomas Middleton
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare