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"Many small make a great."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"A man may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drinke without he will."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
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"It hurteth not the toung to give faire words."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
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"Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Fieldes have eies and woods have eares."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii.
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"The moone is made of a greene cheese."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii.
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"There is no fire without some smoke."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"When the skie falth we shall have Larkes."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
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"The neer to the church, the further from God."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
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"Better is halfe a lofe than no bread."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Have yee him on the hip."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee That wilfully will neither heare nor see?"
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.
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"Nought venter nought have."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Mad as a march hare."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"One good turne asketh another."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Hold their noses to grinstone."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
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"An ill winde that bloweth no man to good."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.
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"Nothing is impossible to a willing hart."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.
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"While the grasse groweth the horse starveth."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"Pryde will have a fall; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Of a good beginning cometh a good end."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.
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"Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Happy man, happy dole."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.
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"She frieth in her owne grease."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"Yee have many strings to your bowe."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
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"You stand in your owne light."
John Heywood / Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
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"I 'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides."
John Home / Douglas. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"A rude and boisterous captain of the sea."
John Home / Douglas. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"In the first days Of my distracting grief, I found myself As women wish to be who love their lords."
John Home / Douglas. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home."
John Home / Douglas. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Like Douglas conquer, or like Douglas die."
John Home / Douglas. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame?"
John K. Ingram / The Dublin Nation, April 1, 1843, Vol. ii. p. 339.
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"In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity."
John Keats / Stanzas.
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"E'en like the passage of an angel's tear That falls through the clear ether silently."
John Keats / To One who has been long in City pent.
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"And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 30.
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"So many, and so many, and such glee."
John Keats / Endymion. Book iv.
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"Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir."
John Keats / Hyperion. Book i.
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"He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute, In Provence call'd "La belle dame sans mercy.""
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 33.
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"The poetry of earth is never dead."
John Keats / On the Grasshopper and Cricket.
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"Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 3.
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"The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 4.
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"Asleep in lap of legends old."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 15.
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness."
John Keats / Endymion. Book i.
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"A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 18.
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"Thou, silent form, doth tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!"
John Keats / Ode on a Grecian Urn.
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"Dance and Provençal song and sunburnt mirth! Oh for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stainèd mouth."
John Keats / Ode to a Nightingale.
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