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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.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Saints themselves will sometimes be,
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The oyster-women lock’d their fish up,
And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The worst of rebels never arm
To do their king or country harm,
But draw their swords to do them good,
As doctors cure by letting blood.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
With crosses, relics, crucifixes,
Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes;
The tools of working out salvation
By mere mechanic operation.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
And though all cry down self, none means
His own self in a literal sense.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease;
And with its everlasting clack,
Set all men’s ears upon the rack.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Can by their pangs and aches find
All turns and changes of the wind.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Do not your juries give their verdict
As if they felt the cause, not heard it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit,
Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
H’ had got a hurt
O’ th’ inside of a deadlier sort.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
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.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
More proselytes and converts use t’ accrue
To false persuasions than the right and true;
For error and mistake are infinite,
But truth has but one way to be i’ th’ right.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
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.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The lives of trees lie only in the barks,
And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
’Tis in books the chief
Of all perfections to be plain and brief.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
What makes the breaking of all oaths
A holy duty?—food and clothes.
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And still be doing, never done.
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For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Than tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonsense has been found
By some to be the most profound.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
For fools are stubborn in their way,
As coins are harden’d by th’ allay;
And obstinacy’s ne’er so stiff
As when ’tis in a wrong belief.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)