1621 · Skopia

Showing 10 quotes from 1621

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Francis Quarles

1621

★ 5.2

Sermon · Religious literature

It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal.

1621

★ 3.7

Personal journal

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation · 1621

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

Every man hath a good and bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

1621

★ 1.1