Samuel Butler ( 10 of 155 )
Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than
discover the sense of his heart deserves read more
He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than
discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out
like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble.
With vollies of eternal babble.
With vollies of eternal babble.
Look before you ere you leap.
Look before you ere you leap.
Now, while the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.
Now, while the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the read more
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion,
That grace is founded in dominion.
Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion,
That grace is founded in dominion.
Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on
The mountain's top, his lofty haven,
And all the passengers read more
So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on
The mountain's top, his lofty haven,
And all the passengers he bore
Were on the new world set ashore,
He made it next his chief design
To plant and propagate a vine,
Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd
Far greater number, on dry ground,
Of wretched mankind, one by one,
Than all the flood before had done.
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
