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Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.


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WILLIAM WATSON 1 Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring) From the cursed soil...
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
WILLIAM WATSON 1 With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit: For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And bid the devil take the hin'most.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, Much farther off, much further ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catc...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow: Some kick'd until th...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserve...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in th...
HEBREWS 1 2 Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd.
SAMUEL BUTLER 1 I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
SAMUEL BUTLER 1 Smell a rat.
SAMUEL BUTLER 1 Unto the pure all things are pure.
BIBLE, TITUS 1:15 Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON (1) A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1) To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happines...
BISHOP RICHARD CUMBERLAND (1) Better to wear out than to rust out.
BISHOP RICHARD CUMBERLAND (1) Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by it...
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1) We don't make mistakes, Mistakes make Us.
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/USER/IBENK911/MY_QUOTES/1 It takes a real man to embrace and express his emotion, a weak man will hide behind his hard exterio...
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