Escritas

Poems List

He that speaketh against his

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
👁️ 31

It is impossible to make

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
👁️ 52

Nothing is greater or more

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
👁️ 33

Know that you are your

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
👁️ 26

He that is proud of

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
👁️ 37

No man can tell but

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
👁️ 46

Curiosity is the direct incontinence

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
👁️ 29

Every act of virtue is

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
👁️ 44

God hath prepared a little

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
👁️ 26

A celibate, like the fly

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
👁️ 25

Comments (0)

Log in ToPostComment

NoComments