For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Geðenc hwelc witu us ða becomon for ðisse worulde, ða ða we hit nohwæðer ne selfe ne lufodon ne eac oðrum monnum ne lefdon!
alfred the greatAristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.
Roger AschamPraie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
john heywoodAn Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
thomas overburyNo man is an Iland , intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent , a part of the maine ; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea , Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me , because I am involved in Mankinde ; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee .
john donneA Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
thomas hobbes" I Authorize and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this Man, or to his Assembly of men, on this condition, that thou that give up thy Right to him, and Authorise all his Actionsin like manner. This done, the Multitude so united in one Person, is called a COMMON-WEALTH, in latine CIVITAS. This is the Generation of that LEVIATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverently)of that Mortall God , to which we owe under the Immortal God , our peace and defence.
thomas hobbesPraie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can. Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
She is her selfe of best things the collection.
philip sidneyPraise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Robert HerrickGeðenc hwelc witu us ða becomon for ðisse worulde, ða ða we hit nohwæðer ne selfe ne lufodon ne eac oðrum monnum ne lefdon!