A few honest men are better than numbers |
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. |
God made them as stubble to our swords |
He who stops being better, stops being good |
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. |
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else |
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government |
If we do not depart from God, and disinite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that w |
It [the Battle of Worcester] is for aught I know a crowning mercy. |
It is not fit that you should sit here any longer! |
It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone |
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry |
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it |
Nature can do more than physicians |
Necessity has no law. |