I shall ask leave to desist, when I am interrupted by so great an experiment as dying.
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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.William Davenant
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
William Davenant
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.
William Davenant
It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
William Davenant
The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
William Davenant
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