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Reformation: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Why, all the souls that are were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy.— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 73.

And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. I. Canto I. St. 2.

The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.— S. BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto II. L. 537.

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.— COWPER — Charity. L. 533.

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.— DRYDEN — Prologue to Sophonisba. L. 9.

He bought a Bible of the new translation, And in his life he show'd great reformation; He walked mannerly and talkèd meekly; He heard three lectures and two sermons weekly; He vow'd to shun all companions unruly, And in his speech he used no oath but "truly;" And zealously to keep the Sabbath's rest.— SIR JOHN HARRINGTON — Of a Precise

Tailor. And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 236.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 1.