Words matter. These are the best Doth Quotes from famous people such as Mark Akenside, John Denham, George Chapman, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
This was Shakespeare’s form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
Youth, what man’s age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
From heav’nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Self-preservation, nature’s first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.
Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.