Quotes by English Authors - Page 10

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
Richard Sibbes
My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
None can pray well but he that lives well.
Thomas Fuller
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands but he cannot lift up his face.
Thomas Watson
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.
Francis Quarles
Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.
William Shakespeare
I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees in prayer.
Samuel Pepys
Lord you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you do not you forget me.
Jacob Astley
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Thomas Fuller
He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.
William Law
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
Thomas Morton
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.
Francis Bacon
I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.
William Shakespeare
As to posterity I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
Thomas Gray
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller
Love me love my dog.
John Heywood
As is our confidence so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
If you want to be a big company tomorrow you have to start acting like one today.
Thomas Watson
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
Nicholas Hilliard
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.
John Milton
Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
William Penn
Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.
Thomas Fuller
Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.
John Dryden
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare
A politician . . . one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare
An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.
John Masefield
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Edmund Spenser
Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.
William Congreve
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
John Fletcher
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
Henry Burton
Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.
John Heywood
There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Sir Francis Bacon
Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.
William Shakespeare
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Thomas Fuller
Many strokes though with a little axe Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
William Shakespeare
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Alcuin
Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.
John Milton
Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.
William Collins
It is the mind that maketh good of ill that maketh wretch or happy rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
The more haste the less speed.
John Heywood
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.
Thomas Percy
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Thomas Hobbes
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.
John Milton
Give me that man That is not passion's slave.
William Shakespeare
Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.
Thomas Fuller