"We're ne'er like angels till our passion dies."

"In the time of the civill warres, George Withers, the poet, begged Sir John Denham's estate at Egham of the Parliamen…"

"I conceive it is a vulgar error in translating poets, to affect being fidus interpres... [for] poetry is of so subtil…"

"But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser rui…"

"Actions o' th' last age are like almanacks o' th' last year."

"Ambition is like love, impatient Both of delays and rivals."

"Whatsoever Is worthy of their love, is worth their anger."

"Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less gui…"

"Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though g…"

"Search not to find what lies too deeply hid, Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid; Nor climb on pyramids, whi…"