Zitat des Tages über Hath:
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.
Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.
As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
The sea hath fish for every man.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
What God hath wrought?
For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.