William Habington Quotes:

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

source: - William Habington (1948). “Poems”

Topics: Carpe Diem, Years, Carpe

As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.

source: - William Habington, “Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam”

Topics: Fall, Kingdoms, Empires

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

Topics: Country, Hate, Pride, Country Life, Vanity And Pride

The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.

Topics: Stars, Sky, Sentinels

No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.

Topics: Men, Clouds, Add, Tweens

He who is good is happy.

Topics: Happiness

My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.

source: - William Habington (2015). “Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635”, p.120, WESTMINSTER A. CONSTABLE AND CO

Topics: Sky, Wings, Heaven