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We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. - [Self-esteem] We ere somewhat more than ourselves in our sleep; and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps. - [Dreams] Who can speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy? - [Eternity] Write thy wrongs in ashes. - [Forgiveness] Yet forget not that "the whole world is a phylactery, and everything we see an item of the wisdom, power, or goodness of God." - [God] Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. - [Enemies] Women do most delight in revenge. - Christian Morals (part III, sec. XII) [Revenge] Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. - Christian Morals (pt. I, sec. XXIII), (paraphrasing Caesar) [Haste] Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it. - Christian Morals (pt. III, XXIX) [Time] I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. - Dedication to Urn Burial [Ancestry] Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. - Hydriotaphia [Sleep] The long habit of living disposeth us for dying. - Hydriotaphia [Life] Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes. - Hydriotaphia (ch. III) [Monuments] Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. - Hydriotaphia (ch. V) [Circles] Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. - Hydriotaphia (ch. V) [Graves] Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it. - Hydriotaphia (ch. V) [Fame] Oblivion is not to be hired. - Hydriotaphia (ch. V) [Oblivion] There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. - Hydriotaphia (ch. V) [Immortality] To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. - Hydriotaphia (ch. V) [Deeds] To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief. - Hydriotaphia (ch. V) [Monuments] Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. - Hydriotaphia (Urn-Burial) (ch. V) [Life] Pliny hath an odd and remarkable Passage concerning the Death of Men and Animals upon the Recess or Ebb of the Sea. - Letter to a Friend (sec. 7) [Death] Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner. - Religio Medici [Enemies] The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric. - Religio Medici [World] The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. - Religio Medici [Charity] Displaying page 3 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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