Robert Southwell Short Quotes

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Grant me grace, O God! that I
My life may mend, sith I must die.

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When Fortune smiles, I smile to think
How quickly she will frown.

Robert Southwell
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

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No joy so great but runneth to an end,
No hap so hard but may in fine amend.

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Times go by turns and chances change by course,
From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

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To rise by others' fall
I deem a losing gain;
All states with others' ruins built
To ruin run amain.

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I feel no care of coin,
Well-doing is my wealth;
My mind to me an empire is,
While grace affordeth health.

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Behold a silly tender babe,
In freezing winter night,
In homely manger trembling lies;
Alas! a piteous sight.

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With this he vanished out of sight, and swiftly shrunk away, And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas Day.

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This stable is a prince's court,
The crib his chair of state;
The beasts are parcel of his pomp,
The wooden dish his plate.

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Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,
Leave off your idle pain;
Seek other mistress for your minds,
Love's service is in vain.

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Not Solomon, for all his wit,
Nor Samson, though he were so strong,
No king nor person ever yet
Could 'scape, but Death laid him along.

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Though all the East did quake to hear
Of Alexander's dreadful name,
And all the West did likewise fear
To hear of Julius Cæsar's fame.

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The saddest birds a season find to sing,
The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;
Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,
That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.

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Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,
A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,
Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,
Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

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