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“'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome
When no force else can get the masterdom.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Money Gets the Mastery
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“Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Money Gets the Mastery
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“No day is wholly unproductive of good.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Money Gets the Mastery
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“Put your toong in your purse.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Dialogue of Wit and Folly (pt. II, l. 263)
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“Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbes (pt. II, ch. V)
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“Haste makes waste.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. II)
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“Two heads are better than one.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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“Nought venture nought have.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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“Set all at sixe and seven.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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“Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
'Tis the same with common natures,
Use 'em kindly, they rebel;
But, be rough as nutmeg-graters,
And the rogues obey you well.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“A name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his pomp of pageantry, as if
He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“But, oh! the love that gold must crown!”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes
To a lodging ready furnished.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“Hundreds of men were turned into beasts,
Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,
By the magic of ale and cider.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,
From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,
To caper on sunny greens and slopes,
Instead of the dance upon nothing.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“Look here, he cries (to give him words):
Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!
Look here, thou vile, predestined sinner,
Doomed to be roasted for a dinner.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,
And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“"Rogue that I am," he whispers to himself,
"I lie, I cheat--do anything for pelf,
But who on earth can say I am not pious?"”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“She was one of those who by fortune's boon
Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon
In her mouth, not a wooden ladle.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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“The doctors gave her over--to an ass.”
Aaron Hill Quotes Source: Verses written on a Window in a Journey to Scotland
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