John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Miscellaneous.
8251 It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
John Kepler (15711630). Martyrs of Science (Brewster). P. 197.
8252 Needle in a bottle of hay.
Field ( 1641): A Womans a Weathercock. (Reprint, 1612, p. 20.)
8253 He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a womans will.
Samuel Tuke ( 1673): Adventures of Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3.
8254 Laugh and be fat.
John Taylor (1580?1684). Title of a Tract, 1615.
8255 Diamond cut diamond.
John Ford (15861639): The Lovers Melancholy. Act i. Sc. 1.
8256 A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.
John Winthrop (15881649): Life and Letters. Vol. ii. p. 341.
8257 I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
Richard Baxter (16151691): Love breathing Thank and Praise.
8258 Though this may be play to you, T is death to us.
Roger LEstrange (16161704): Fables from Several Authors. Fable 398.
8259 And there s a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbours shame; On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die.
Stephen Harvey (circa 1627): Juvenal, Satire ix.
8260 May I govern my passion with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.
Walter Pope (16301714): The Old Mans Wish.