Quotes by English Authors - Page 44

The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
We cry down the law in respect of justification, but we set it up as a rule of sanctification. The law sends us to the Gospel that we may be justified; and the Gospel sends us to the law again to inquire what is our duty as those who are justified.
Samuel Bolton
Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Thomas Fuller
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.
Thomas Sydenham
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.
William Shakespeare
HAMLET I will receive it sir with all diligence of spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use, 'tis for the head.OSRIC I thank you lordship, it is very hot.HAMLET No believe me, 'tis very cold, the wind is northerly.OSRIC It is indifferent cold my lord, indeed.HAMLET But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion.OSRIC Exceedingly my lord, it is very sultry, as 'twere - I cannot tell how. But my lord, his majesty bade me signify to you that a has laid a great wager on your head. Sir, this is the matter -HAMLET I beseech you remember.(Hamlet moves him to put on his hat)
William Shakespeare
No drowning man can know which dropOf water his last breath did stop
Charles Sedley
So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not with indented wave,Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear,Circular base of rising folds, that toweredFold above fold, a surging maze! his headCrested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;With burnished neck of verdant gold, erectAmidst his circling spires, that on the grassFloated redundant: pleasing was his shapeAnd lovely; never since of serpent-kindLovelier…
John Milton
There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
What's in a name?
William Shakespeare
They say an old man is twice a child
William Shakespeare
O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
Now is the Winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.
Thomas Paine
Each new mornNew widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrowsStrike heaven on the face, that it resoundsAs if it felt with Scotland, and yelled outLike syllable of dolor.
William Shakespeare
Men from children nothing differ.
William Shakespeare
Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.For here though death doth end their misery,I'll there begin their endless tragedy.
Thomas Kyd
It is the most sweet and comfortable knowledge; to be studying Jesus Christ, what is it but to be digging among all the veins and springs of comfort? And the deeper you dig, the more do these springs flow upon you. How are hearts ravished with the discoveries of Christ in the gospel? what ecstasies, meltings, transports, do gracious souls meet there? Doubtless, Philip’s ecstasy, John 1: 25. 'eurekamen Iesoun,' 'We have found Jesus,' was far beyond that of Archimedes. A believer could sit from morning to night, to hear discourses of Christ; 'His mouth is most sweet', Cant. [i.e., Song of Solomon] 5: 16.
John Flavel
The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.
William Shakespeare
Sweets with sweets war not joy delights in joy.
William Shakespeare
This I have known, and these have come againWith echoing happiness in heart and brain;Time standing still, surrendering to meBeauty that otherwise would cease to be.
William Kean Seymour
Lord you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you do not you forget me.
Jacob Astley
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.
William Shakespeare
War is the trade of kings.
John Dryden
And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
John Milton
I would live to study not study to live.
Francis Bacon
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.
Thomas Paine
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
William Shakespeare
Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.
Thomas Paine
I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.
Thomas Paine
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton
We cannot all be masters.
William Shakespeare
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Thomas Fuller
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt
Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thyfriends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it...deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,a cooling fan of feathers.
Thomas Dekker
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth
Thomas Hobbes
Raven: The Honourable Mr Listless is gone. He declared that, what with family quarrels in the morning, and ghosts at night, he could get neither sleep nor peace; and that the agitation was too much for his nerves: though Mr Glowry assured him that the ghost was only poor Crow walking in his sleep, and that the shroud and bloody turban were a sheet and a red nightcap.
Thomas Love Peacock
Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
William Harvey
Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.
William Hale White
Of all mad matches never was the likeBeing mad herself, she’s madly mated.
William Shakespeare
There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.
Thomas Brooks
Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.
John Eliot
A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
William Penn
Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.
Bishop Ken
Better to be happy than wise.
John Heywood
If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.
William Shakespeare
Every man has his fault and honesty is his.
William Shakespeare
Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
William Shakespeare
It is the mind that maketh good of ill that maketh wretch or happy rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser
The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.
Thomas Fuller
I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees in prayer.
Samuel Pepys
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
William Shakespeare
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Sir Thomas Browne
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
William Shakespeare
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
William Cowper