Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
Implied Subjection, but requir’d with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv’d,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven’s eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
Luck is the residue of design.
Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.
Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
Beauty is nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.