King James I
King James I
James VI and Iwas King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death. The kingdoms of Scotland and England were individual sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciary, and laws, though both were ruled by James in personal union...
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth19 June 1566
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I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
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If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.
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To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
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On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.
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Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
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It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.
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That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.
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The wisest fool in Christendom.
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God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.
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Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.
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It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.
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God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.