The Natural Clock-work by the might One
Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.
Sun dial mottoes
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: a part of a sun dial motto on the south porch of Seaham Church, Durham, England
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Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof.
Liberty
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: inscription on the Liberty Bell from Bibles's Leviticus 25:10
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Mottoes
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: inscription on cannon near ashes of John Bradshaw on top of hill near Martha Bay, Jamaica, it is als
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Rebellion
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: inscription on cannon near ashes of John Bradshaw on top of hill near Martha Bay, Jamaica, it is als
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Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all
arts. This was first invented about the year 1440.
[Lat., Memoriae sacrum
Typographia
Ars artium omnium
Conservatrix
Hic primum inventa
Circa annum mccccxl.
Printing
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: inscription on the facade of the house once occupied by Laurent Koster at Harlem
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As I saw fair Chloris walk alone,
The feather'd snow came softly down,
As Jove, descending from his tow'r
To court her in a silver show'r.
The wanton snow flew to her breast,
As little birds into their nest;
But o'ercome with whiteness there,
For grief dissolv'd into a tear.
Thence falling on her garment hem,
To deck her, froze into a gem.
Snow
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: On Chloris walking in the Snow, in "Wit's Recreations", J.C. Hotten's reprint, p. 308 (1640)
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Some say "to-morrow" never comes,
A saying oft thought right;
But if to-morrow never came,
No end were of "to-night."
The fact is this, time flies so fast,
That e'er we've time to say
"To-morrow's come," presto! behold!
"To-morrow" proves "To-day."
Tomorrow
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: from "Notes and Queries", fourth series, vol. XII
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The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Ideas
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Yale Univ. professor on Fred Smith's idea for FedEx delivery service
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one
idea.
Ideas
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Yale Univ. professor on Fred Smith's idea for FedEx delivery service
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The defender of his country--the founder of liberty,
The friend of man,
History and tradition are explored in vain
For a parallel to his character.
In the annals of modern greatness
He stands alone;
And the noblest names of antiquity
Lose their lustre in his presence.
Born the benefactor of mankind,
He united all the greatness necessary
To an illustrious career.
Nature made him great,
He made himself virtuous.
Washington, george
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: part of an epitaph found on the back of a portrait of Washington sent to his family from England, se
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Our common Father and Deliverer, to whose prudence, wisdom and
valour we owe our Peace, Liberty and Safety, now leads and
directs in the great councils of the nation . . . and now we
celebrate an independent Government--an original Constitution!
an independent Legislature, at the head of which we this day
celebrate, The Father of his Country--We celebrate Washington!
We celebrate an independent Empire!
Washington, george
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: Pennsylvania Packet, July 9, 1789, p. 284
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An Austrian army awfully arrayed.
Soldiers
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: poet arranged with "apt alliteration's artful aid", first appeared in "The Trifler", May 7, 1817, pr
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The king of France with twenty thousand men
Went up the hill, and then came down again:
The king of Spain with twenty thousand more
Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
Soldiers
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: from Sloane Manuscript 1489, written time of Charles I
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A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings,
You came across the watching world to show how heroes die.
When the splendour of your story
Builds the halo of its glory,
'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings
And diadem the sky.
Soldiers
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: "M.R.C.S.", in "Anzac", on Colonial Soldiers, 1919
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Terrible he rode alone,
With his yemen sword for aid;
Ornament it carried none
But the notches on the blade.
Soldiers
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: The Death Feud--An Arab War Song (st. 14), in "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine", July, 1850, translation s
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The rise of every man he loved to trace,
Up to the very pod O!
And, in baboons, our parent race
Was found by old Monboddo.
Their A, B, C, he made them speak,
And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!
Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek
They knew as well's Monboddo!
Evolution
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: ballad in "Blackwood's Mag" referring to monkey theory of James Burnett (Lord Monboddo)
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"There beauty half her glory veils,
In cabs, those gondolas on wheels."
Livery
Quotes, by Unattributed Author , Source: said to be taken from "May Fair", a satire publication
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