But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Andrew Marvell
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Andrew Marvell
The world in all doth but two nations bear —
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
Andrew Marvell
The Mover to the Glow-worms
Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
The nightingale does sit so late
And studying all the summer night
Her matchless songs does meditate;
Ye country comets, that portend
No war, nor prince’s funeral,
Shining unto no higher end
Than to presage the grasses’s fall;
Ye glow-worms whose officious flame
To wandering mowers shows the way,
That in the night have lost their aim
And after foolish fires do stray;
Your courteous lights in vain you waste,
Since Juliana here is come,
For she my mind hath so displaced
That I shall never find my home.
Andrew Marvell
The mode of death is sadder than death itself.
Martial
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
Martial
You will always be poor, if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to-day to none save the rich.
Martial
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
Martial
Laugh if you are wise.
Martial
Believe me, wise men don’t say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow’s life is too late; live today.
Martial
Great joys, like griefs, are silent
Shackerley Marmion