Occupation: Poet Birth: January 22, 1572 Death: March 31, 1631
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms..
we give each other a smile with a future in it.
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes..
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; a….
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty..
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on ei….
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the ….
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face..
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent..
I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die..
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance..
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail..
More than kisses, letters mingle souls..
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!.
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat ..
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be….
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee..
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification..
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease..
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?.