Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public ro… - William Davenant
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public ro…
- William Davenant
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Pr… - William Davenant
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Pr…
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. - William Davenant
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. - William Davenant
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth Boasts all the… - William Davenant
Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth Boasts all the…
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. - William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd… - William Davenant
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd…
Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity. - William Davenant
Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. - William Davenant
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion