Quotes by English Authors - Page 6

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.
Samuel Warren
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
Thomas Fuller
They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.
Henry Burton
The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it.
William Hazlitt
Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William Hazlitt
I have taught you my dear flock for above thirty years how to live and I will show you in a very short time how to die.
George Sandys
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
William Shakespeare
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
John Masefield
I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.
Thomas Lye
Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
William Cowper
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
Thomas Watson
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
Thomas Watson
Faith is the fountain of prayer and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.
Thomas Manton
We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.
William Shakespeare
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others but then they return with their richer lading at last so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.
Thomas Manton
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
William Law
Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.
George Herbert
There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.
William Jenkyn
We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
William Shakespeare
O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
When we make self the end of prayer it is not worship but self-seeking.
Thomas Manton
Prayer should be short without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
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
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Thomas Fuller
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
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
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