Top 8 William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling Quotes

#1. While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

#2. Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

#3. How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind
and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

#4. The deepest rivers make least din.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

#5. The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

#6. Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please
the one yields glory, and the other ease.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

#7. The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole men in blood by women drown'd.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

#8. No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

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