Quotes by James Howe

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“The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.”
— James Howell

“Appetite is better than surfeit.”
— James Howell

“He will bless God, and love England ever after”
— James Howell

“The Netherlands have been for many years, as one may say, the very cockpit of Christendom.”
— James Howell

“Words are the soul's embassadors, who go Abroad upon her errands to and fro; They are the sole expounders of the mind, And correspondence keep 'twist all mankind. They are those airy keys that ope ...”
— James Howell

“'Tis only man can words create, And cut the air to sounds articulate By nature's special charter. Nay, speech can Make a shrewd discrepance 'twist man and man: It doth the gentleman from clown disc...”
— James Howell

“Words are the life of knowledge; they set free, And bring forth truth by way of midwif'ry: The activ'st creatures of the teeming brain, The judges who the inward man arraign: Reason's chief engine ...”
— James Howell

“Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape, And of rude commons rich enclosures make.”
— James Howell