William Habington Quotes

• Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

  William Habington

  Carpe Diem, Years, Carpe

  William Habington (1948). “Poems”

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• The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.

  William Habington

  Stars, Sky, Sentinels

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• I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

  William Habington

  Country, Hate, Pride

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• As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.

  William Habington

  Fall, Kingdoms, Empires

  William Habington, “Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam”

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• No distinction is 'tween man and man,
  But as his virtues add to him a glory
  Or vices cloud him.

  William Habington

  Men, Clouds, Vices

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• He who is good is happy.

  William Habington

  Happiness

  William Habington, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1812). “Castara: With a Preface and Notes”, p.147

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• My soule her wings doth spread
  And heaven-ward flies,
  Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read
  In the large volumes of the skies.

  William Habington

  Sky, Wings, Heaven

  William Habington (2015). “Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635”, p.120, WESTMINSTER A. CONSTABLE AND CO

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