Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Thou art to all lost love the best,
The only true plant found,
Wherewith young men and maids distrest
And left of love, are crown'd.
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself ... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
It is by discourse that men associate and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations, wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.
Nativity once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned,
Crookèd eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.... Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation ... inflicted by those who had no power at all.
Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.... His master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man; Is blackened. Man's Forgiveness give - and take.
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave, A paradise for a sect the savage too From forth the loftiest fashion of his sleep Guesses at Heaven.
How much lies in laughter the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
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