Quotes by English Authors - Page 38

God’s justice in the one, and his goodness in the other, is exercised for evermore, as the everlasting subjects of his reward and punishment.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel Defoe
Where Christ’s Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.
Richard Sibbes
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.
John Milton
Above all the studies in the world, study your own hearts; waste not a minute more of your precious time about frivolous & unsubstantial controversies. My dear flock, I have, according to the grace given me, labored in the course of my ministry among you, to feed you with the heart strengthening bread of practical doctrine, and I do assure you, it is far better you should have the sweet and saving impressions of gospel truths, feelingly and powerfully conveyed to your hearts, than only to understand them by a bare ratiocination, or a dry syllogistical inference. Leave trifling studies to such as have time lying on their hands and know not how to employ it. Remember you are at the door of eternity, and have other work to do. Those hours you spend upon heart-work in your closets, are the golden spots of all your time and will have the sweetest influence up to your last hour.
John Flavel
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
William Shenstone
Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,And look on death itself!
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently.HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?POLONIUS By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed.HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel.POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel.HAMLET Or like a whale?POLONIUS Very like a whale.HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by.
William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause
William Shakespeare
So oft it chances in particular menThat for some vicious mole of nature inthem—As in their birth (wherein they are not guilty,Since nature cannot choose his origin),By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,Oft breaking down the pales and forts ofreason,Or by some habit that too much o'erleavensThe form of plausive manners—that thesemen,Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,Being nature’s livery or fortune’s star,Their virtues else (be they as pure as grace,As infinite as man may undergo)Shall in the general censure take corruptionFrom that particular fault. The dram of evilDoth all the noble substance of a doubtTo his own scandal.
William Shakespeare
In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm grateful for the past.
William Congreve
The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).
Thomas Watson
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
William Hutton
The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are mere shadows to the unseen grief which swells with silence in the tortured soul.There lies the substance.
William Shakespeare
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
Francis Bacon
The multitude is always in the wrong.
Wentworth Dillon
We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a
William Hazlitt
There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had been empty for a great while; years before his—the ancient man's—birth. It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful.
William Hope Hodgson
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
William Hazlitt
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.
Francis Quarles
One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
William Shakespeare
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon
O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!
William Shakespeare
Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
Thomas Fuller
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare
Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I earn that I eat get that I wear owe no man hate envy no man's happiness glad of other men's good content with my harm.
William Shakespeare
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
William Hazlitt
God loved us before he made us and his love has never diminished and never shall.
Julian of Norwich
Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
John Donne
Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough tomake them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or haveThings of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as those thatare full of precious Drugs.They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and levelDwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of theWinds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings haveneed of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to theWeather.
William Penn
It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)
William Shakespeare
QUINCEFrancis Flute, the bellows-mender.FLUTEHere, Peter Quince.QUINCEFlute, you must take Thisby on you.FLUTEWhat is Thisby? a wandering knight?QUINCEIt is the lady that Pyramus must love.FLUTENay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.
William Shakespeare
A man dies as often as he loses his friends.
Francis Bacon
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Sir Francis Bacon
All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
William Penn
But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.
John Masefield
An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.
John Heywood
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Sir John Denham
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of all matches never was the like.
William Shakespeare
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal
John Donne
Light brings us the news of the Universe.
William Henry Bragg
If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me. But if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the case is changed. Moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose justice to do this, is to destroy the principle of its existence, which is the thing itself. It is then no longer justice. It is indiscriminate revenge.
Thomas Paine
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
William Law
Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
William Camden
I may tell you it is not a small token that a woman loveth when she giveth unto her lover her beauty, which is so precious a matter; and by the ways that be a passage to the soul (that is to say, the sight and the hearing) sendeth the looks of her eyes, the image of her countenance, and the voice of her words, that pierce into the lover's heart and give a witness of her love.
Thomas Hoby
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
William Shakespeare
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as a rule, hate literary conversation, and yet at the right moment, with all its powers of feeling, the mind in silence may feel what it owes to literature.
William Hurrell Mallock
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams