Quotes by English Authors - Page 33

Love sought is good but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
The most thankful person is the most fully human.
Thomas Goodwin
Too many read a chapter or two in the Bible, then for lack of interest put it down for weeks at a time and never look at it. Bernard compares the study of the Word and the mere reading of it to the difference between a close friendship and a casual acquaintance. If you want genuine knowledge, he says, you will have to do more than greet the Word politely on Sundays or nod reverently when you chance to meet it on the street. You must walk with it and talk with it every day of the week. You must invite it into your private chambers, and forego other pleasures and worldly duties to spent time in its company.
William Gurnall
Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.
Joseph Addison
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
Come, sir, come,I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,And give you to the gods.
William Shakespeare
My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.
William Shakespeare
If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
I prithee send me back my heart,Since I cannot have thine;For if from yours you will not part,Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?Yet now I think on't, let it lie,To find it were in vain;For thou hast a thief in either eyeWould steal it back again.Why should two hearts in one breast lie,And yet not lodge together?O Love! where is thy sympathy,If thus our breasts thou sever?But love is such a mystery,I cannot find it out;For when I think I'm best resolved,I then am in most doubt.Then farewell care, and farewell woe;I will no longer pine;For I'll believe I have her heart,As much as she hath mine.
John Suckling
But thought’s the slave of life, and life time’s fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,But that the earthy and cold hand of deathLies on my tongue
William Shakespeare
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
John Milton
There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.
Thomas Paine
Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,And Melancholy marked him for her own.
Thomas Gray
This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong artsMake of so noble individual partsOne fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.
John Donne
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
William Shakespeare
Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume.
William Shakespeare
I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.
John Clare
[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.
Thomas Brooks
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
John Donne
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:And you all know, securityIs mortals' chiefest enemy.
William Shakespeare
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Thomas Hobbes
Sweets to the sweet.
William Shakespeare
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
John Dryden
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
John Donne
So many horrid Ghosts.
William Shakespeare
Cowards falter but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Queen Elizabeth I
If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the corrupted currents of this worldOffence's gilded hand may shove by justice,And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itselfBuys out the law. . . (Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)
William Shakespeare
I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!
William Shakespeare
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Francis Bacon
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part.
William Shakespeare
If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.
William Shakespeare
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
William Shakespeare
​Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall carve of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.
William Shakespeare
What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.
William Shakespeare
All kings and all their favourites All glory of honours beauties wits The sun itself which makes time as they pass Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw Only our love hath no decay This no to-morrow hath nor yesterday Running it never runs from us away But truly keeps his first last everlasting day.
John Donne
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II
William Shakespeare
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
If you want to be a big company tomorrow you have to start acting like one today.
Thomas Watson
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
Above all sins, guard against bold or arrogant ones. You are not beyond the danger of such. If caught in the web of presumptuous sin, call quickly to God for help. If you hesitate, you only give Satan time to entangle you more tightly. But if you cry out to God in true repentance, He will come at once to rescue you. The sooner you yield to the Spirit, the less damage is done to your soul.
William Gurnall
Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.
Thomas Brooks
There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at the very source. They begin life trampling on all their younger brothers and sisters, and relations of every kind, and are taught and educated so to do. With what ideas of justice or honor can that man enter a house of legislation, who absorbs in his own person the inheritance of a whole family of children, or metes out some pitiful portion with the insolence of a gift?
Thomas Paine
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
William Shakespeare
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating.
William Shakespeare
You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.
Thomas Traherne
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
William Shakespeare
I will complain, yet praise;I will bewail, approve:And all my sowre-sweet dayesI will lament, and love.
George Herbert
The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare