Doth Quotes

377 quotes by 170 authors

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. — Ben Jonson
That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing. — James Russell Lowell
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. — John Donne
To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become. — John Donne
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny… — Lord Chesterfield
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any. — John Harington
As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of… — Anthony Burgess
Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring. — Alexander Moody Stuart
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we… — John Ray
This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares... — William Shakespeare
The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and… — Mark Twain
Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty.… — Henry David Thoreau
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect… — Ben Jonson
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. — Christina Rossetti
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. — Martial
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial. — Saint John Chrysostom
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When… — William Shakespeare
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek… — William Shakespeare
He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things. — Benjamin Franklin

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