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Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
They never would hear,
But turn the deaf ear,
As a matter they had no concern in.
They never would hear,
But turn the deaf ear,
As a matter they had no concern in.
None so deaf as those who will not hear.
None so deaf as those who will not hear.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.
The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.
Within a bony labrinthean cave,
Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,
This sibyl, sweet, and read more
Within a bony labrinthean cave,
Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,
This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found,
Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: read more
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door wherein I went.
