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    To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells
    Ring Sabbath knells;
    The sod's a cushion for his pious want,
    And, consecrated by the heaven within it,
    The sky-blue pool a font.

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You cannot know wine by the barrell.
[You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]

You cannot know wine by the barrell.
[You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]

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Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.

by Unknown Found in: General Sayings,
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Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.

by Thomas Middleton Found in: General Sayings,
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

by William Shakespeare Found in: General Sayings,
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Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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He that serves well needes not ask his wages.

He that serves well needes not ask his wages.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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Debters are lyers.

Debters are lyers.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more

A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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