To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
Goodness
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: on the town hall of Zittau, Saxony
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It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.
Love
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: a popular French song in "Chansons Nationales et Populaires de France", vol. II, p. 180
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Oh, tell me whence Love cometh!
Love comes uncall'd, unsent.
Oh, tell me where Love goeth!
That was not Love that went.
Love
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Burden of a Woman, found in J.W. Ebsworth's "Roxburghe Ballads"
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I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the hours pass'd away
With the girl I left behind me.
Love
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: The Girl I Left Behind Me
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Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but Lady Greensleeves?
Love
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: A new Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Greensleeves to the new tune of "Greensleeves", from "A Handful of
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Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,
To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;
Resigns his native rights for meaner things,
For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.
Man
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin--The Progress of Man (l. 55)
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Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
After old age had and sad,
Earth will slumber over us.
[Lat., Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus
Post pucundam juventutem.
Post molestam senectutem.
Nos habetit humus.]
Life
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: (John Addington Symonds' translation)
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Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word,
That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.
Life
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: The Roxburghe Ballads--A Friend's Advice (pt. II, edited by William Chappell)
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If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have belief that every little breath
Will stay with you for an eternity.
Life
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: The Roxburghe Ballads--A Friend's Advice (pt. II, edited by William Chappell)
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This ae nighte, this ae nighte
Every nighte and all;
Fire and sleete, and candle lighte
And Christe receive thye saule.
Soul
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Lyke-Wake Dirge (vol. III, p. 163), in Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Border" (T.F. Henderson's edition)
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When treading London's well-known ground
If e'er I feel my spirits tire,
I haul my sail, look up around,
In search of Whitbread's best entire.
- Unattributed Author,
Drinking
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: from "The Myrtle and the Vine"--A Complete Vocal Library--A Pot of Porter, Ho!
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Drinking will make a man quaff,
Quaffing will make a man sing,
Singing will make a man laugh,
And laughing long life doth bring,
Says old Simon the King.
- Unattributed Author, Old Sir Simon the King,
Drinking
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Old Sir Simon the King, referring to Simon Wadloe, tavern-keeper at the "Devil," Fleet Street, about
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This is the best world, that we live in,
To lend and to spend and to give in:
But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,
It is the worst world that ever was known.
World
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: A Collection of Epigrams
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Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably wrong.
World
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Fortnightly Review--Armageddon--And After (p. 36)
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Those pigmy tribes of Panton street,
Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,
Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.
England
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: A Monstrous good Lounge (p. 5)
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This Booke
When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke
Fresh to all Ages.
Shakespeare
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Commentary Verses prefixed to the folio of Shakespeare
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Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of
that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much
of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare
puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a
pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but
our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him
beray his credit.
Shakespeare
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: The Return from Parnassus; or, the Scourge of Simony (act IV, sc. 3)
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Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact
that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within
the Spirit of the Game.
Books (first lines)
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: The Laws of Cricket
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1a \'a\ n, pl a's or as \'az\ often cap, often attrib (bef. 12c) 1
a : the 1st letter of the English alphabet b : a representation
of this letter c : a speech counterpart of orthographic a 2 : the
6th tone of a C-major scale 3 : a graphic device for reproducing
the letter a 4 : one designated a esp. as the 1st in order or
class 5 a : a grade rating a student's work as superior in
quality b : one graded or rated with an A 6 : something shaped
like the letter A
- Unattributed Author,
Books (first lines)
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th edition)
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Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under
direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field in accordance
with these rules, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires.
Books (first lines)
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Official Rules of Baseball, Rule 1.01
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'Tis bad enough in man or woman
To steal a goose from off a common;
But surely he's without excuse
Who steals a common from the goose.
Thieving
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Epigram, in Carey's "Commonplace Book of Epigrams"
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