Top 15 William Drummond Quotes
#1. Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.
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#2. Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace ... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
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#3. There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
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#6. He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
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#7. Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
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#8. I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.
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#9. He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
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#11. Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.
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#12. If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so loving friends and never-loathing lovers as the body and the soul?
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#13. As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.
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#14. Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.
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