312 quotes
756. Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Would you know what mony is, go borrow some.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
533. Help thyselfe, and God will helpe thee.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
611. Time is the rider that breakes youth.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
744. Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
753. By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where,
And when, and how thy business may be done.
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.
The Temple (1633)
Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain;
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse.
The Temple (1633)
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.
The Temple (1633)
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine.
The Temple (1633)
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.
The Temple (1633)
A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
Makes that and th' action fine.
The Temple (1633)
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
My house, my house, though thou art small,
Thou art to me the Escurial.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need
But he to wear them.
The Temple (1633)
Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing,
My God and King.
The Temple (1633)
Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Like summer friends,
Flies of estate and sunneshine.
The Temple (1633)
There is a remedy for everything, could men find it.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Old men go to death; death comes to young men.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)