Hath Quotes

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

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.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

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.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

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.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.