“Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is…” — Sir John Suckling | V2Melody

“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

Sir John Suckling

About Sir John Suckling

Sir John Suckling

10 February 1609–1642

Sir John Suckling stands as one of the most vivid and enigmatic figures of the seventeenth century, a man whose life was lived with the same flamboyant intensity that characterized his verse. Born in 1609 and dying under mysterious circumstances in 1642, Suckling's brief thirty-three years encapsulate the glittering…

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“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

“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

“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