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Renaissance Quotes

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They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Of Studies, Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Of Studies, Bacon
Come live with me, and be my love/ And we will all the pleasures prove The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Marlowe
If these delights thy mind may move/ Then live with me and be my love The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Marlowe
If all the world and love were young/ And truth in every shepherd's tongue The Nymph's Reply, Raleigh
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,/ Is fancy spring, but sorrow's fall The Nymph's Reply, Raleigh
The these delights my mind might move,/ To live with thee and by thy love The Nymph's Reply, Raleigh
Lady, it is to be presumed,/ Though art's hid causes are not found/ All is not sweet, all is not sound Still to Be Neat, Jonson
Such sweet neglect more taketh me/ Than all th'adulteries of art/ They strike mine eyes, but not my heart Still to Be Neat, Jonson
Drink to me only with thine eyes,/ And I will pledge with mine Song: to Cecilia, Jonson
O, I could lose all father, now. On My First Son, Jonson
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such,/ As what he loves may never like too much On My First Son, Jonson
Stone walls do not a prison make,/ Nor iron bars a cage To Althea, from Prison, Lovelace
True, a new mistress now I chase To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, Lovelace
I could not love thee, Dear, so much/ Loved I not honor more To Lucasta , on Going to the Wars, Lovelace
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,/ Old time is still a-flying To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Herrick
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,/ The higher he's a-getting To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Herrick
Come live with me, and be my love/ And we will some new pleasures prove The Bait, Donne
For thee, thou need'st no such deceit/ For thou thyself art thine own bait,/ That fish, that is not catched thereby/ Alas, is wiser, far than I The Bait, Donne
Our two souls, therefore, which are one,/ Though I must go, endure not yet A Valediction, Donne
If they be two, they are two so/ As stiff twin compasses are two;/ Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show/ To move, but doth, if th'other do. A Valediction, Donne
All mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must so be translated. Meditation 17, Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. Meditation 17, Donne
Never ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee Mediation 17, Donne
My vegetable love should grow/ Vaster than empires, and more slow To His Coy Mistress, Marvell
But at my back I always hear/ Time's winged chariot hurrying near To His Coy Mistress, Marvell
Thus, though we cannot make our sun/ Stand still. yet we will make him run To His Coy Mistress, Marvell
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/ Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/ with loss of Eden, till one greater Man/ Restore us, and regain the blissful seat Paradise Lost, Milton
Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate,/ with head uplift above the wave, and eyes/ that sparkling blazed; his other parts besides/ prone on the flood, extending long and large/ lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge Paradise Lost, Milton
as whom the fables name of monstrous size/ Titanian, or Earthborn, that warred on Jove Paradise Lost, Milton
And sing this day thy victories/ then shall the fall further the flight in me Easter Wings, Herbert
For, if I imp my wing on thine/ Affliction shall advance the flight in me Easter Wings, Herbert
Onely a sweet and vertuous/ Like season'd timber, never gives Vertue, Herbert
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Holy Sonnet 10, Donne
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die Holy Sonnet 10, Donne
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