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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.


Bible, 1 Peter 5:8

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SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
JAMES THOMSON (1) Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For nothing human foreign was to him.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And still be doing, never done.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down, A Cloak and Band I then put on, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails; I shall still Vicar be of Bray, Whic...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant, With cavaliers are cavaliers ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site; Make former times sha...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is...
JAMES THOMSON (1) For discords make the sweetest airs.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears; As wise philosophers h...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore, Replete with strange hermet...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Oh Ignorance Thou art fall'n man's best friend!
WILLIAM WATSON 1 And sanguine hope through every storm of life, Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal str...
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring) From the cursed soil...
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. [Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
WILLIAM WATSON 1 With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit: For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And bid the devil take the hin'most.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, Much farther off, much further ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catc...
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