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Top 20 Henry Vaughan Quotes (2025 Update)

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.”

1. “Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.”

2. “But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.”

3. “Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.”

4. “I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven’s blisse.”

5. “Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven’s blisse.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “There is in God – some say – A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!”

6. “There is in God – some say – A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.”

7. “If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.”

8. “As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.”

9. “Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.”

10. “The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!”

11. “Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.”

12. “They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.”

13. “I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord’s hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.”

14. “Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord’s hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.”

15. “And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.”

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Henry Vaughan Quote: “Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.”

16. “Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Dear Night! this world’s defeat; The stop to busy fools; care’s check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul’s calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ’s progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.”

17. “Dear Night! this world’s defeat; The stop to busy fools; care’s check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul’s calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ’s progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.”

18. “The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Some syllables are swords.”

19. “Some syllables are swords.”

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Henry Vaughan Quote: “So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.”

20. “So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.”

— Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil’d, though fresh and new.”

21. “Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil’d, though fresh and new.”

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Henry Vaughan Quote: “To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.”

22. “To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.”

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Henry Vaughan Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Henry Vaughan Quote: “Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.”

24. “Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.”

— Henry Vaughan

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