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All impediments in fancy's course are motives of more fancy. - [Fancy] All is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes. - [Shame] All offences come from the heart. - [Heart] All orators are dumb, when beauty pleadeth. - [Beauty] All pride is willing pride. - [Pride] All surfeit is the father of much fast. - [Satiety] All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. - [Eternity] All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile! - [Curses] All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inch-meal a disease! - [Curses] All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. - [Guilt] All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as "If you said so, then I said so;" and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If. - [Prudence] All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. - [Anticipation] All, with one consent, praise newborn gauds, though they are made and moulded of things past. - [Novelty] Allow not nature more than nature needs. - [Excess] Although The air of paradise did fan the house, And angels offic'd all; I will be gone. - [Determination] Although the last, not least. - [Proverbs] Ambition's like a circle on the water, Which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. - [Ambition] An affable and courteous gentleman. - [Gentlemen] An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England. - [Traitor] An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. - [Emulation] An eye like Mars, to threaten or command. - [Eyes] An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. - [Honesty] An oak whose boughs were mossed with age, and high top bald with dry antiquity. - [Trees] An old man is twice a child. - [Age] An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity! - [Resignation] Displaying page 4 of 187 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187
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