William Alexander Quotes
1560–1640 Scotland
William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling (c. 1567 in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire – 12 February 1640) was a Scottish poet.
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Also known as: Alexander, William
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What life refused, to gain by death he thought:
For life and death are but indifferent things,
And of themselves not to be shunned nor sought,
But for the good or ill that either brings.
A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1924)
When policy puts on religious cloak.
A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1924)
The weaker sex, to piety more prone
I hope, I fear, resolved, and yet I doubt,
I'm cold as ice, and yet I burn as fire;
I wot not what, and yet I much desire,
And trembling too, am desperately stout.
A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1924)
O if thou knew’st how thou thyself dost harm,
And dost prejudge thy bliss, and spoil my rest;
Then thou would’st melt the ice out of thy breast
And thy relenting heart would kindly warm.