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A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. - [Fire] All things decay with time; the forest sees The growth and downfall of her aged trees: That timber tall, which threescore lustres stood The proud dictator of the state-like wood-- I mean the sov'reign of all plants, the oak, Droops, dies, and falls without the cleaver's stroke. - [Ruins] But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest. - Epitaph on Sir Edward Giles [Epitaphs] Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness. - [Worldliness] Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow may be dying. - [Proverbs] Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. - [Choice] Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite. - [Eating] He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale. - [Shipwreck] In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. - [Temptation] It is the will that makes the action good or ill. - [Will] Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep. - [Taxes] Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all. - [Contentment] Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. - [Extremes] Like will to like; each creature loves his kind. Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind. - [Sympathy] Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent. - [Adversity] Necessity makes dastards valiant men. - [Necessity] None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware. - [Warnings] Nothing is so hard but search will find it out. - [Perseverance] Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. - [Tears] Satan o'ercomes none but by willingness. - [Temperance] 'T is the will that makes the action good or ill. - [Sin] Tears are the noble language of the eye. - [Tears] That happiness does still the longest thrive where joys and griefs have turns alternative. - [Happiness] That man lives twice that lives the first life well. - [Life] The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. - [Body] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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