Date: 1611-12, 1623

"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; / Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow; / Raze out the written troubles of the brain; / And with some sweet oblivious antidote / Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart?"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: w. c. 54-8, trans. 1611

"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."

— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)

Date: 1611

"Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. "

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"But the word [this commandment] is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth"

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber"

— Author Unknown

Date: 1704

"Erect your schemes with as much method and skill as you please; yet, if the materials be nothing but dirt, spun out of your own entrails (the guts of modern brains), the edifice will conclude at last in a cobweb; the duration of which, like that of other spiders’ webs, may be imputed to their be...

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)