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He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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On his weary couch
Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,
Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam
That through his lattice peeped derisively.
Topic: Luxury
Source: Course of Time (bk. VII, l. 69)
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Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept
Essential love.
Topic: Mercy
Source: Course of Time (bk. III, l. 658)
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He sat among his bags, and, with a look
Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor
Away unalmed; and midst abundance died--
Sorest of evils!--died of utter want.
Topic: Misers
Source: Course of Time (bk. III, l. 276)
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He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Get money, money still!
And then let virtue follow, if she will.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Get wealth and power, if possible by grace,
If not, by any means, get wealth and place.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done
When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord!
Star of Eternity! The only star
By which the bark of man could navigate
The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss
Securely.
Topic: Scripture
Source: Course of Time (bk. II, l. 270)
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'Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words;
Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.
Topic: Slander
Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 725)
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