Quotes by English Authors - Page 34

The preaching of God's word is hateful and contrary unto them. Why? For it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench the true doctrine of Christ.
William Tyndale
It shall greatly help ye to understand the Scriptures if thou mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goeth before and what followeth after.
Miles Coverdale
But then I sigh, with a piece of ScriptureTell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare
The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was the wretch that first began and carried on wars on the score or on the pretence of religion; and under that mask, or that infatuation, committed the most unexampled atrocities that are to be found in the history of any nation. Of which I will state only one instance:When the Jewish army returned from one of their plundering and murdering excursions, the account goes on as follows (Numbers xxxi. 13): 'And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp; and Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle; and Moses said unto them, 'Have ye saved all the women alive?' behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore, 'kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all the women- children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for Yourse
Thomas Paine
So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.
William Jay
God works by means; and it is by his people that he principally carries on his cause in the world. They are his witnesses. They are his servants. He first makes them the subjects of his grace, and then the mediums. He first turns them from rebels into friends, and then employs them to go and beseech others to be reconciled unto God. For they know the wretchedness of a state of alienation from him. They know the blessedness of a return. They have "tasted that the Lord is gracious." Their own experience gives them earnestness and confidence in saying to those around them, "O taste, and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
William Jay
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
William Shakespeare
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
Thomas Hobbes
Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print
John Clare
The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.
William Shakespeare
It is not enough to speak but to speak truth
William Shakespeare
Lying is a thriving vocation.
Susanna Centlivre
When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:To-morrow's falser than the former day;Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blestWith some new joys, cuts off what we possesst.
John Dryden
For your sake, jewel,I am glad at soul I have no other child;For thy escape would teach me tyranny,To hang clogs on them.
William Shakespeare
Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.
Thomas Traherne
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
William Cecil
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.
Thomas Paine
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Thomas Fuller
I do believe you think what now you speak,But what we do determine oft we break.Purpose is but the slave to memory,Of violent birth, but poor validity,Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.Most necessary ’tis that we forgetTo pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.What to ourselves in passion we propose,The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
William Shakespeare
Ay,sir;to be honest,as this world goes,is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
William Shakespeare
If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
William Hurrell Mallock
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)
William Shakespeare
To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179
William Shakespeare
What a fool honesty is.
William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
William Shakespeare
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
William Hazlitt
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness . . .
William Shakespeare
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases
Thomas Browne
I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble.
William Shakespeare
Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of
William Shakespeare
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
William Shakespeare
Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.
William Hazlitt
In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.
William Henry Hudson
Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.
Aphra Behn
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
I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.
William Shakespeare
as long as agreat number of those impressions which form character, like the nicemotions of the arm, remain absolutely independent of the will of man,though it would be the height of folly and presumption to attempt tocalculate the relative proportions of virtue and vice at the future periodsof the world, it may be safely asserted that the vices and moralweakness of mankind, taken in the mass, are invincible.
Thomas Robert Malthus
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,
William Shakespeare
They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason.
Thomas Sydenham
I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her: No matter, if but to vex her, I'll haunt her still; Though I get nothing else, I'll have my will.
Thomas Middleton
Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.
William Shakespeare
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.
William Shakespeare
Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.
William Hazlitt
Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!O any thing, of nothing first create!O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!This love feel I, that feel no love in this.Dost thou not laugh?
William Shakespeare
My only love sprung from my only hate.
William Shakespeare
Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.- (1772-1834)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
William Shakespeare
It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.
Roger Bacon
Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?
John Milton
In yonder nether world where shall I seekHis bright appearances or footstep trace?For though I fled him angry, yet recalledTo life prolonged and promised race I nowGladly behold though but His utmost skirtsOf glory, and far off His steps adore.
John Milton
What a piece of work is man!
William Shakespeare
Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.
William Shakespeare
It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible ofimprovement
Thomas Robert Malthus
The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.
Thomas Robert Malthus
No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.
Robert Burton