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A kick that scarce would move a horse,
May kill a sound divine.
A kick that scarce would move a horse,
May kill a sound divine.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
You are harping on the same string.
[Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]
You are harping on the same string.
[Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life read more
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long read more
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant
Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn
Loud as the read more
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant
Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn
Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,
Not practise!
Hear how he clears the points o' Faith
Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!
Now meekly calm, now wild read more
Hear how he clears the points o' Faith
Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!
Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath,
He's stampin', and he's jumpin'!
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to
others, waste and destruction to themselves.
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to
others, waste and destruction to themselves.
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
