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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
That conscience approves of and attests such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Why should not conscience have vacation,
As well as other courts o’ th’ nation?
Have equal power to adjourn,
Appoint appearance, and return?
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Bloody wars at first began,
The artificial plague of man,
That from his own invention rise,
To scourge his own iniquities.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Drudgery and knowledge are of a kin,
And both descended from one parent sin.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
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)