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✵ 1608 – 16. augusztus 1661
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“He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.”

Life of the Duke of Alva (1642). Compare: "A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay", John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, part i. line 156.

“A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.”

The True Church Antiquary. Compare: "A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion", Francis Bacon, Of Atheism.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies.”

Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”

Of Books.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“By the same proportion that a penny saved is a penny gained, the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them.”

The History of the Worthies of England (1662) ; Worthies of Huntingtonshire – John Yong.

“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”

Of Building.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.”

The Good Advocate.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.”

Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician (1646), Sect. vi. Par. 18, 1. Compare: "My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads", Francis Bacon, Apothegms, No. 17.

“She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.”

The Good Wife.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.”

The Good Husband.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches.”

The Church History of Britain; Book 4, Section 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=AkcaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Miracles+are+the+swaddling+clothes+of+infant+churches%22&pg=PA239#v=onepage (1655)

“Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.”

The History of the Holy War (1639), Book I, Ch. 24.

“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.”

Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“The lion is not so fierce as painted.”

Of Preferment. Compare: "is bark is worse than his bite", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.”

Of Tombs.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)

“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”

The History of the Worthies of England (1662): Musicians.