Quotes by English Authors - Page 9

Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.
William Penn
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
Francis Quarles
The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
Francis Bacon
My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
Every why hath a wherefore.
William Shakespeare
I have no other but a woman's reason. I think him so because I think him so.
William Shakespeare
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
Where I cannot satisfy my reason I love to humour my fancy.
Sir Thomas Browne
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.
John Donne
Reason is also choice.
John Milton
Prospect is often better than possession.
Thomas Fuller
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
Good is not good where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller
We cannot all be masters.
William Shakespeare
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
Bland as a Jesuit sober as a hymn.
William Ernest Henley
A man surprised is half beaten.
Thomas Fuller
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
Thomas Fuller
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
Alcuin
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
William Hazlitt
He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
William Shakespeare
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Joseph Addison
There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.
Thomas Paine
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
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
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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