Hath Quotes

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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.

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

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.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

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.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.