"That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears."

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"Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone, That shall eat with a fend."

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"One eare it heard, at the other out it went."

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"Full wise is he that can himselven knowe."

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"Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea."

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"True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good."

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"So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES."

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"I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first."

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"I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old."

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"No, here 's to the pilot that weathered the storm!"

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"Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet,--perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!"

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"Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir."

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"And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black 's not so black,--nor white so very white."

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"I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf."

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"Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself."

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"An ill weed grows apace."

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"Black is a pearl in a woman's eye."

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"Promise is most given when the least is said."

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"Make ducks and drakes with shillings."

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"For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still."

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"Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err."

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"None ever loved but at first sight they loved."

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"Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air."

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"Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare."

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"They 're only truly great who are truly good."

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"Fair words never hurt the tongue."

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"Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words."

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"Cor. Oh, that 's for lovers' thoughts."

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"Words writ in waters."

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"As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose."

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"His deeds inimitable, like the sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts."

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"Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honour without deserving, To other some, deserving without honour."

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"Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here."

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"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."

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"To put a girdle round about the world."

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"I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines."

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"'T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven."

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"Who to himself is law no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed."

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"Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'T is good to be merry and wise."

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"He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best."

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"So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live."

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"Let pride go afore, shame will follow after."

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"Enough 's as good as a feast."

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"Three stories high, long, dull, and old, As great lords' stories often are."

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"Thank you, good sir, I owe you one."

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"O Miss Bailey! Unfortunate Miss Bailey!"

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"On their own merits modest men are dumb."

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"When taken, To be well shaken."

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"I had a soul above buttons."

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"Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk, Sipped brandy and water gayly."

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