Quote#World
His life is neither tossed in boisterous seas
Quote byPhineas Fletcher · 1582–1650
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Purple Island (1633), Canto 12, st. 5; quoted in Dinah Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman (1856).
English (original)
His life is neither tossed in boisterous seas Of troublous world, nor lost in slothful ease.
— Phineas Fletcher
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Love’s tongue is in the eyes.
Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
Drop, drop, slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet, Which brought from Heaven The news and Prince of Peace.
In your deep floods Drown all my faults and fears; Not let His eye See sin, but through my tears.
Thus fell that prince of darkness, once a bright And shining star [...]: To be in Heaven the second he disdains; So now the first in Hell and flames he reigns, Crowned once with joy and light: crowned now with fire and pains.
Love is like linen; often changed, the sweeter.