For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
