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01c. 1425 AD

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

02c. 1494 AD

There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God, Than from theyr children to spare the rod.

John Skelton / quote

03c. 1565 AD

God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.

John Heywood / quote

04c. 1565 AD

The neer to the church, the further from God.

John Heywood / quote

05c. 1565 AD

Every man for himselfe and God for us all.

John Heywood / quote

06c. 1547 AD

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

Thomas Tusser / quote

07c. 1575 AD

Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.

Bishop Still (John) / quote

08c. 1591 AD

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

Sir Edward Coke / quote

09c. 1585 AD

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!

Sir Walter Raleigh / quote

10c. 1576 AD

To kerke the narre from God more farre, Has bene an old-sayd sawe; And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe.

Edmund Spenser / quote

11c. 1576 AD

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage,—the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

Richard Hooker / quote

12c. 1597 AD

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.

Michael Drayton / quote

13c. 1590 AD

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

William Shakespeare / quote

14c. 1590 AD

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

William Shakespeare / quote

15c. 1590 AD

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare / quote

16c. 1590 AD

2 Watch. How if a' will not stand? Dogb. Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.

William Shakespeare / quote

17c. 1590 AD

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare / quote

18c. 1590 AD

God, made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

William Shakespeare / quote

19c. 1590 AD

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

William Shakespeare / quote

20c. 1590 AD

And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

William Shakespeare / quote

21c. 1590 AD

I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.

William Shakespeare / quote

22c. 1590 AD

God save the mark.

William Shakespeare / quote

23c. 1590 AD

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,— I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

William Shakespeare / quote

24c. 1590 AD

Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!

William Shakespeare / quote