"Childhood".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span
Where weeping Virtue parts with man;
Where love without lust dwells, and bends
What way we please without self-ends. An age of mysteries! which he
Must live that would God's face see
Which angels guard, and with it play,
Angels! which foul men drive away.
Henry Vaughan: Quotes about men
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“Some men a forward motion love,
But I by backward steps would move.”
"The Retreat," l. 29.
Silex Scintillans (1655)
“As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.”
Preface to Hermetical Physick of Henry Nollus (1655).