Remarks by Sir John Suckling | V2Melody Quotations

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“I hope, when you know the worst, you will at once leap into the river, and swim through handsomely, and not, weatherbeaten with the divers blasts of irresolution, stand shivering upon the brink.”

Urging decisive action over prolonged hesitation · Letter

“The whole world hath been so eager to embrace that there is a Deity, that rather than it would have none at all, it hath too often been contented with a very mean one.”

On humanity's innate drive toward the divine · An Account of Religion by Reason

“Among the truths which we receive, none more reasonably commands our belief than those which by all men at all times have been assented to.”

On the authority of universal consent in establishing belief · An Account of Religion by Reason

“That man is deceivable is true, but what part within him is not likelier than his reason?”

Asserting reason as the least fallible faculty · Epistle to An Account of Religion by Reason

“Not knowing why a man should not use the best weapon his Creator hath given him for his defence.”

Defending the use of reason in matters of faith · Epistle to An Account of Religion by Reason

“You are now free; and what matter is it to a prisoner whether the fetters be taken off the ordinary way or not?”

Consoling a widow that the manner of release from marriage is secondary · Letter on a relative's death

“If you would make a visit to Bedlam, you shall find that there are rarely two there mad for the same thing.”

Observing the singular nature of each person's obsessions · Letter, A Dissuasion from Love

“Marrying would certainly cure it; but that is a kind of live pigeons laid to the soles of the feet, a last remedy, and worse than the disease.”

Wry counsel against marriage as a cure for lovesickness · Letter, A Dissuasion from Love

“Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.”

On the virtue of a swift farewell over prolonged regret · Letter to a lady

“Horseley air did excel the waters of the Bath, just so much as love is a more noble disease than the pox.”

Playful comparison elevating the affliction of love above ordinary illness · Letter to Thomas Carew

“A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.”

Preferring calm sufficiency over restless excess · Prose writings collected in The Works of Sir John Suckling