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... sure never to come to an untimely end , for by the course of law his glass was out long before . He calls rebellion and treason laying out of himself for the public ; but being found to be false unlawfu ! coin , he was seized upon , and ...
... sure never to come to an untimely end , for by the course of law his glass was out long before . He calls rebellion and treason laying out of himself for the public ; but being found to be false unlawfu ! coin , he was seized upon , and ...
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... sure in a family it bodeth most bad , when two fire - balls ( hus- band and wife's anger ) come both together . - Fuller . LXVII . 67 . Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy , as the sensitive plant ...
... sure in a family it bodeth most bad , when two fire - balls ( hus- band and wife's anger ) come both together . - Fuller . LXVII . 67 . Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy , as the sensitive plant ...
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... sure , on every contest , to take the advantage of drawing all to his own side . And will , so highly boasted , is , at best , merely a top or football between these youngsters , who prove very unfortunately matched ; till the youngest ...
... sure , on every contest , to take the advantage of drawing all to his own side . And will , so highly boasted , is , at best , merely a top or football between these youngsters , who prove very unfortunately matched ; till the youngest ...
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... of fox hunters , who roar instead of speaking ; there- fore , if it be true , that we women are also given to a greater fluency of words than is necessary , sure she that disturbs but a room or a family , is more LACONICS . 47.
... of fox hunters , who roar instead of speaking ; there- fore , if it be true , that we women are also given to a greater fluency of words than is necessary , sure she that disturbs but a room or a family , is more LACONICS . 47.
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... out of their hearts , sure all would count this lawfull and commendable.- Fuller . CCLXVII . In matters of learning and philosophy , the practice of pulling down is far pleasanter , and affords more enter- 68 LACONICS .
... out of their hearts , sure all would count this lawfull and commendable.- Fuller . CCLXVII . In matters of learning and philosophy , the practice of pulling down is far pleasanter , and affords more enter- 68 LACONICS .
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Page 304 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 291 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 293 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, 4 — — make use — 1 ie make interest. Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Page 257 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 224 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 232 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 192 - Thou art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : happy thou art not : For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get i And what thou hast, forget'st : thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon : if thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee...
Page 172 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Page 171 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Page 236 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...