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- The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind…
- For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
- Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in…
- Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots,…
- And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man…
- O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime…
- Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
- No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
- A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.
- Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
- Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them…
- Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom…
- From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.…
- Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
- A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands…
- That power Which erring men call Chance.
- Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks…
- Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
- Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
- Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
- Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
- Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
- Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.
- None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise…
- It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things [in Genesis] that have been named, were approved of God to be very…
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