It the Battle of Worcester is for aught I know a crowning mercy.
It the Battle of Worcester is for aught I know a crowning mercy.
We will cut off his (the king's) head with the crown on it
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Such men as had the fear of God before them and made some conscience of what they did ... the plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows.
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go
Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it
A few honest men are better than numbers.
No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.
Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole
God made them as stubble to our swords.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
Make the iron hot by striking it.
Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
It is not fit that you should sit here any longer.
Necessity has no law.
Nature can do more than physicians.
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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