I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits..

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant..

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens rewa….

When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age n….

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above..

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without….

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee..

The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above..

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent..

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection..

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach..

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are..

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome..

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance..

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid..

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them o….

What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn..

And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand al….

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences..

It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So….