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"Why should not conscience have vacation As well as other courts o' th' nation?"
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 317.
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"He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it; Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made?"
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 377.
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"As the ancients Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance, And look before you ere you leap; For as you sow, ye are like to reap."
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501.
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"Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat."
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1.
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"He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no."
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261.
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"Each window like a pill'ry appears, With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears."
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 391.
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"To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd, And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd."
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 923.
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"There 's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war."
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 957.
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"But Hudibras gave him a twitch As quick as lightning in the breech, Just in the place where honour 's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd; Because a kick in that part more Hurts honour than deep wounds before."
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1065.
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"As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon 't."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 481.
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"Still amorous and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 687.
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"What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1277.
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"'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows They shall be suffer'd to espouse."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1293.
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"Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, Though he gave his name to our Old Nick."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1313.
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"With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,-- The tools of working our salvation By mere mechanic operation."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1495.
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"True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto ii. Line 175.
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"But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto ii. Line 443.
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"For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 243.
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"He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 547.
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"With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay."
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 624.
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"And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, But only want and discontent."
Fragments.
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