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Like to the falling of a star, . . . . Like to the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom of the tree. - Argalus and Parthenia, claimed by him but attributed to John Phillipot in Harleian Manuscript 3917, folio 88b [Women] We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole. - Divine Emblems (bk. II, II) [Traveling] The world's a book, writ by th' eternal Art Of the great Maker; printed in man's heart; 'Tis falsely printed though divinely penn'd, And all the Errata will appear at th' end. - Divine Fancies [Epitaphs] The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven. - Divine Fancies [Epitaphs] The goods we spend we keep; and what we save We lose; and only what we lose we have. - Divine Fancies (bk. IV, art. 70) [Possession] Our Life is nothing but a Winter's day; Some only break their Fast, and so away: Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed: The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed: He's most in debt that lingers out the Day: Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay. - Divine Fancies--On The Life of Man [Life] Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks. - Divine Poems [Death] See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie. - Emblems, bk. IV, 14 [Umbrellas] My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought. - Emblems (bk. I, 4) [World] Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Light will repay The wrongs of night; sweet Phosphor, bring the day! - Emblems (bk. I, em. 14, st. 5) [Day] A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear. - Emblems (bk. I, emblem XIII, l. 19) [Fear] Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. - Emblems (bk. I, Hugo) [Luxury] The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. - Emblems (bk. I, Hugo de Anima) [Heart] The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. - Emblems (bk. II, em. 1) [Merit] Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. - Emblems (bk. II, em. 2) [Wisdom] The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance with greater ease than made. - Emblems (bk. II, emblem 13) [Debt] What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold. - Emblems (bk. II, emblem V) [Mammon] This house is to be let for life or years, Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears; Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone. - Emblems (bk. II, epigram X) [Heart] 'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go, The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow. - Emblems (bk. III, emblem XVI) [Mercy] My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears. - Emblems (bk. III, ep. XI) [Soul] The next way home's the farthest way about. - Emblems (bk. IV, em. 2, ep. 2) [Proverbs] Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. - Emblems (bk. IV, emblem 3) [Ambition] It is the lot of man but once to die. - Emblems (bk. V, em. 7) [Death] Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before; After deliverance both alike requited, Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. - Epigram [Forgetfulness] He that hath no cross deserves no crown. - Esther [Religion] Displaying page 6 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7
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