John Oldham Quotes

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Wile some no other cause for life can give
But a dull habitude to live.

John Oldham

And should you visit now the seats of bliss,
You need not wear another form but this.

John Oldham

Lord of myself, accountable to none.
But to my conscience, and my God alone.

John Oldham

Curse on the man who business first designed,
And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!

John Oldham

Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate,
By every breach in that fair lodging made,
Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.

John Oldham

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
To each affronting sot I meet, the word
Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,
And pointed satire runs him through and through.

John Oldham

Ah, dearer than my soul…
Dearer than light, or life, or fame.

John Oldham