Katherine Philips famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
-- Katherine Philips

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Religion, which true policy befriends, Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends, Is by that old deceiver's subtle play Made the chief party in its own decay, And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.
-- Katherine Philips

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I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship ...
-- Katherine Philips

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Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms.
I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
I get to keep you,â€ he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. â€œKeep me?â€ I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. â€œNot here. I canâ€™t take much more, Pagan. Iâ€™m only so strong,â€ he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. â€œYouâ€™re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.â€ I heard a touch of humor in his voice. â€œItâ€™s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree: There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Katherine Philips famous quotes

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