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01c. 1605 AD

In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

Ben Jonson / quote

02c. 1600 AD

There 's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy; O sweetest Melancholy!

John Fletcher / quote

03c. 1608 AD

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

Robert Burton / quote

04c. 1608 AD

Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain. . . . And yet Wecker out of Galen calls it horse-meat, and fitter juments than men to feed on.

Robert Burton / quote

05c. 1612 AD

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

Philip Massinger / quote

06In print by 1905 AD

Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.

Thomas Heywood / quote

07c. 1601 AD

What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.

Francis Beaumont / quote

08In print by 1905 AD

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

09c. 1633 AD

No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes / quote

10c. 1617 AD

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

William Browne / quote

11c. 1618 AD

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.

Francis Quarles / quote

12c. 1638 AD

Oh, the gallant fisher's life! It is the best of any; 'T is full of pleasure, void of strife, And 't is beloved by many.

Izaak Walton / quote

13c. 1643 AD

Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,—when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.

Sir Thomas Browne / quote

14c. 1641 AD

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

John Milton / quote

15c. 1641 AD

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

John Milton / quote

16c. 1641 AD

To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom.

John Milton / quote

17c. 1641 AD

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well: how long or short permit to heaven.

John Milton / quote

18c. 1641 AD

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

John Milton / quote

19c. 1641 AD

By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.

John Milton / quote

20c. 1641 AD

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

John Milton / quote

21c. 1641 AD

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

John Milton / quote

22c. 1641 AD

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

John Milton / quote

23c. 1633 AD

Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!

Richard Crashaw / quote

24c. 1642 AD

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right.

Abraham Cowley / quote