27 Quotes by Robert Southwell

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

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.

What thought can think, another thought can mend.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live.

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

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

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.

The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.

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