31 quotes
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.
To Sir Richard Fanshaw (1648)
Ambition is like love, impatient
Both of delays and rivals.
The Sophy (1641)
Wisdom's first progress is to take a view
What's decent or indecent, false or true.
Of Prudence (1668)
Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Of Prudence (1668)
Whatsoever
Is worthy of their love, is worth their anger.
The Sophy (1641)
When any great design thou dost intend,
Think of the means, the manner, and the end.
Of Prudence (1668)
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ
Attempt translation.
To Sir Richard Fanshaw (1648)
Wisdom of what herself approves makes choice,
Nor is led captive by the common voice.
Of Prudence (1668)
But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor.
Cooper's Hill (1642)
Some secrets deep in abstruse darkness lie:
To search them thou wilt need a piercing eye.
Of Prudence (1668)
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
The Sophy: A Tragedy (1641)
Let not the pleasing many thee delight,
First judge if those whom thou dost please judge right.
Of Prudence (1668)
Who fears not to do ill yet fears the name,
And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;
To live and die is all we have to do.
Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Variety, which all the rest endears.
Cooper's Hill (1642)
Though with those streams he no resemblance hold,
Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold;
His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore,
Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.
Cooper's Hill (1642)