Henry Vaughan quotes

" Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there " # Discontent # Death and Dying # Age and Aging

" They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here. " # Age and Aging # Freedom # Power

" Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. " # History and Historians # Writers and Writing # Women

" So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. " # Christmas # Age and Aging # Attitude

" Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime. " # Life and Living # Prayer # Age and Aging

" There is in God, some say, A deep but dazzling darkness. " # Life and Living

" Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race. " # Happiness # Love # Angels

" But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. " # Writers and Writing

" Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move. " # Love # Life and Living # Failure

" I cannot reach it, and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. " # Excellence # Love # Goals