| 21 Famous Quotes by John Taylor "The Water Poet"
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“Better fed than taught.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Jack a Lent, French proverb
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“God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats of arms.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“As shines the moon in clouded skies,
She in her poor attire was seen.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“As the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him to think what kind of bird it is,
That sings so delicately clear, and make
Conjecture of the plumage and the form.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“Bring in great logs and let them lie
To make a solid core of heat.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and
drained.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that?
Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“Fill the cup and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn;
Every minute dies a man,
Every minute one is born.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“For man is man, and master of his fate.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth;
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, that outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“His essences turn the live air sick.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good;
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“I sit within a helmless bark.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“In robe and crown the king stepped down,
To meet and greet her on her way.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“Let never maiden think, however fair,
She is not fairer in new clothes than old.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“Like a dog he hunts in dreams.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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“Like summer tempest came her tears:
Sweet my child, I live for thee.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Works (vol. II, p. 85)
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John Taylor "The Water Poet" Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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