19 quotes found
“My dear my better half.”
“It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.”
“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.”
“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”
“Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.”
“Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;With shield of...”
“My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; There never was a bargain better driven.”
“Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.”
“But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an actual truth, and so, not being true, proveth a falsehood. And doth the lawyer lie then, when, un...”
“Stella, the only planet of my light,Light of my life, and life of my desire,Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,World of my wealth, and heav'n of my delight:Why dost thou spend the treasur...”
“Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things!Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.Draw in thy beams, and h...”
“Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.”
“It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.”
“Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all o...”
“The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.”
“If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love...”
“Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the certain knot of peace The baiting-place of wit the balm of woe The poor man's wealth the prisoner's release The indifferent judge between the high and low.”
