Quotes by English Authors - Page 32

Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.
Thomas Robert Malthus
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney
The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
William Shakespeare
Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.
Thomas Traherne
Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke:...
Thomas Love Peacock
The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
Without the door let sorrow lie,And if for cold it hap to die,We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie,And evermore be merry.
George Wither
Sometimes we punish our selves the most.
William Shakespeare
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.
William Shakespeare
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,And therefore I forbid my tears.
William Shakespeare
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne
If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so; or sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides one thing entire to many objects: like perspectives which, rightly gaz'd upon, show nothing but confusion:
William Shakespeare
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Alcuin
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
Joseph Addison
But say I could repent and could obtaineBy Act of Grace my former state: how soonwould higth recal high thoughts; how soon unsaywhat feign'd submission swore: ease would recantvows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement growwhere wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep:which would but lead me to a worse relapseand heavier fall: so should I purchase cleaveshort intermission bought with double smart:This knows my punisher; therefore as farfrom granting here, as I from begging peace:All hope excluded thus, behold in steadof us out-cast, exil'd, his new delight, Mankind created, and for his this World. So farewell Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear,Farewel Remorse: all Good to me is lost.
John Milton
Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
William Shakespeare
If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.
William Cowper
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller
Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.
John Milton
When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon his knees.
William Cowper
Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.
Thomas Paine
Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems."'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
William Shakespeare
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work.
Thomas Fuller
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare
Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.
William Hazlitt
A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied.But now she's laid; what though she be?Yet there are more delays, for where is he?He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere;First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere.Let not this day, then, but this night be thine;Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.
John Donne
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.
Thomas Watson
A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
William Shakespeare
The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds;the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves,Bursting, impetuous, breaks through its river banks.
Elizabeth Jane Weston
A mighty pain to love it is and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all pains the greatest pain it is to love but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley
Servant of God well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight.
John Milton
All things are ready, if our mind be so.
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird's throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather.
William Shakespeare
As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.
Thomas Fuller
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
Thomas More
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
William Hazlitt
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon
God helps those who help themselves.
Algernon Sidney
A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,Knew you not Pompey?
William Shakespeare
Then the conceit of this inconstant staySets you rich in youth before my sight,Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,To change your day of youth to sullied night;And all in war with Time for love of you,As he takes from you I engraft you new.
William Shakespeare
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds that sees into the bottom of my grief?
William Shakespeare
I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.
William Shakespeare
In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people who are diagnosed with DID. Note that this is not an explicit diagnostic criterion, although such amnesia features strongly in the public view of DID, particularly in the form of the fugue-like conditions depicted in films of the condition, such as The Three Faces of Eve (1957). Typically, when one personality state, or ‘alter’, takes over from another, they have no idea what happened just before. They report having lost time, and often will have no idea where they are or how they got there. However, this is not a universal feature of DID. It happens that with certain individuals with DID, one personality state can retrieve what happened when another was in control. In other cases we have what is described as ‘co-consciousness’ where one personality state can apparently monitor what is happening when another personality state is in control and, in certain circumstances, can take over the conversation.
John Morton
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
William Shakespeare
Where I cannot satisfy my reason I love to humour my fancy.
Sir Thomas Browne
LXXVSo are you to my thoughts as food to life,Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;And for the peace of you I hold such strifeAs 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.Now proud as an enjoyer, and anonDoubting the filching age will steal his treasure;Now counting best to be with you alone,Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,And by and by clean starved for a look;Possessing or pursuing no delightSave what is had, or must from you be took. Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
William Shakespeare
Do not think, Oh, that I were delivered from all these afflictions and troubles here in this world! If you were, then you would have more ease yourself, but this is a way of honoring God, and manifesting the excellence of grace here, when you are in this conflict of temptation, which God shall not have from you in Heaven.
Jeremiah Burroughs
Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds. Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare
Pour on, I will endure.
William Shakespeare
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
William Penn