God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise Him as it rolls like drums in the march of the God of armies? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Doth not the lightning write His name in letters of fire? Hath not the whole earth a voice? And shall I, can I, silent be?
Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all. . . let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.
The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.
A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
He who hath many friends hath none.
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.
He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself
Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.
His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.
An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.
He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.