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True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.
Topic: Sun Dial Mottoes
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 175)
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Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose,
Sir Knight, that I am one of those,
I might suspect, and take th' alarm,
You bus'ness is but to inform;
But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near,
You have a wrong sow by the ear.
Topic: Suspicion
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 575)
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Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
Topic: Swine
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 852)
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You have a wrong sow by the ear.
Topic: Swine
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 580)
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But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
Topic: Talk
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 443)
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With vollies of eternal babble.
Topic: Talk
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 453)
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And though it be a two-foot trout,
'Tis with a single hair pulled out.
Topic: Trout
Source: Hudibras
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For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.
Topic: Trout
Source: On a Hypocritical Nonconformist (st. 4)
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For truth is precious and divine;
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Topic: Truth
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 257)
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'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
Topic: Truth
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III)
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He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known.
Topic: Will
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 547)
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So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on
The mountain's top, his lofty haven,
And all the passengers he bore
Were on the new world set ashore,
He made it next his chief design
To plant and propagate a vine,
Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd
Far greater number, on dry ground,
Of wretched mankind, one by one,
Than all the flood before had done.
Topic: Wine and Spirits
Source: Satire Upon Drunkenness (l. 105)
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We grant, although he had much wit,
H' was very shy of using it,
As being loth to wear it out,
And therefore bore it not about;
Unless on holy days or so,
As men their best apparel do.
Topic: Wit
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 45)
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Great wits and valours, like great states,
Do sometimes sink with their own weights.
Topic: Wit
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 269)
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He that will win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home.
Topic: Wooing
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 449)
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She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
No more than on the thing they lean.
Topic: Wooing
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 591)
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And still be doing, never done.
Topic: Work
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 204)
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'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, in anything,
But so much money as 't will bring?
Topic: Worth
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 463)
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This was the penn'worth of his thought.
Topic: Worth
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III)
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H' had got a hurt
O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
Topic: Wounds
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 309)
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For zeal's a dreadful termagant,
That teaches saints to tear and cant.
Topic: Zeal
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 673)
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