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Page 23 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 23 - The quality of mercy is not strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 28 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Page 30 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 28 - Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
Page 25 - He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.
Page 24 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway ; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute of God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's "When mercy seasons justice.
Page 27 - Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Page 27 - ... things appear new to them. It happens to men of learning, as to ears of corn ; they shoot up and raise their heads high while they are empty ; but when full and swelled with grain, they begin to flag and droop.
Page 32 - The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye: the more light you pour upon it, the more it will (A) blink (B) veer (C) stare (D) reflect (E) contract The image of light unifies this sentence.
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| Titre | Short-hand for Everybody |
| Auteur | William Mattieu Williams |
| Éditeur | Simpkin, Marshall, 1867 |
| Original provenant de | Université d'Oxford |
| Numérisé | 8 août 2006 |
| Longueur | 59 pages |
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