Quotes by English Authors - Page 16

We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
William Penn
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
Joseph Addison
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
William Shakespeare
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
William Shakespeare
What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.
William Shakespeare
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
William Shakespeare
Athens the eye of Greece mother of arts And eloquence.
John Milton
Grief is itself a med'cine.
William Cowper
Some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
William Shakespeare
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Thomas Fuller
A great ship asks deep water.
George Herbert
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Fuller
He does it with a better grace but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare
Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
Thomas Gray
Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.
Bishop Ken
Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.
Francis Quarles
Foul whisperings are abroad.
William Shakespeare
Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.
John Milton
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.
William Penn
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Thomas Fuller
The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.
Thomas Fuller
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
Joseph Addison
Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
Abraham Cowley
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.
Joseph Addison
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will or rather our own will is our separation from God.
William Law
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.
William Cowper
God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts who best Bear His mild yoke they serve Him best His state Is kingly thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton
It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon
The nearer the church the further from God.
Bishop Lancelot Andrewes
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller
If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
Thomas Fuller
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.
Francis Quarles
Give an inch he'll take an ell.
Thomas Hobbes
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.
John Milton
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
God the first garden made and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley
The ripest fruit first falls.
William Shakespeare
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Francis Bacon
Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
Friendship's a noble name 'tis love refined.
Susannah Centlivre
True friendship is self-love at second hand.
William Hazlitt
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
Thomas Fuller
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt
Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.
Sir Thomas Browne
Acquaintance I would have but when it depends not on the number but the choice of friends.
Abraham Cowley