There is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
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There is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
BIBLE There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]
BIBLE There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you...
ANONYMOUS There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1
BIBLE Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
JOHN PIPER What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again... Ecclesiastes 1:9
BIBLE There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
AMBROSE BIERCE There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know
AMBROSE BIERCE There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.
ROBERT PLANT There is no new thing under the sun.
BIBLE Wisdom is better than weapons of war. 9:18b, Ecclesiastes
BIBLE All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked. Ecclesiastes 9:...
BIBLE What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new u...
ANONYMOUS The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)
BIBLE A good name is better than precious ointment. Ecclesiastes 7:1
BIBLE A good name is better than precious ointment. [Ecclesiastes 7:1]
BIBLE Musicians! Nothing is new under the sun. We are all extensions and reflections of our personal music...
MARCOS CURIEL King Solomon was right, when he said that there is nothing new under the sun because, very rarely yo...
DR HITESH C SHETH Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowl...
BIBLE It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is...
JAMES RICHARDSON Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Ecclesiastes 7:9
BIBLE There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.
JARED BROCK I called 9-1-1 on a cell phone and they told us to stay there.
ANNIE CLARK There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designin...
YOON AHN There is appointed time for every sacred event under the sun.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors ...
JAY LENO The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
SAMUEL BECKETT The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.
BART D. EHRMAN The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which shall be ...
BIBLE There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his so...
BIBLE There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his so...
BIBLE We've got almost 1 million square feet of new office space under construction.
DAVE RODERIQUE It was elementary. He just threw a pen. It was nothing. He's thrown everything under the sun before.
ADRIAN MOSS Harland understands the technical side of 9-1-1 and how it's supposed to work.
DAVE TUTTLE Mungu anataka tuwe na mtazamo wa ‘kila kitu kinawezekana juu ya jua’ na si ‘kila kitu kinaweze...
ENOCK MAREGESI Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES And she was just covered in blood ... And so I called 9-1-1.
ERNESTINE MENDOZA When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER It's nothing new. What's new is the fact that we talk about it now, we don't brush it under the carp...
DEBORAH GUST Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing ...
KHALIL GIBRAN Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
ECCLESIASTES 11:1 it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Livonia would save money because they wouldn't have to run their own 9-1-1 center.
BILL DWYER For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find i...
MOTHER GOOSE When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there...
JACKI WEAVER This is the same system we installed for the White County 9-1-1 dispatch center in November 2004. I ...
BILL HAYNIE For every pain under the sun, there is always a remedy or may be none. If there is remedy, hurry and...
LILY CHATTERJEE The sun is new each day.
HERACLITUS Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
an...
KING SOLOMON SON OF DAVID The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet r...
BIBLE A threefold cord is not easily broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12).
BIBLE I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always ...
VICTORIA ABRIL We completed our digital mapping a year ago; we are the only county to have that done in Montana, .....
BOB JONES You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get...
LILI ST. CROW Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madn...
G.K. CHESTERTON There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.
JONATHAN LETHEM There is nothing new in art except talent.
ANTON CHEKHOV A farmer who would not work inside the rain and would not work under the sun, would have nothing to ...
ESAN MAGAZINE It hasn't been an easy 9 1/2 months, nor should it have been.
BILL RITTER The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated univers...
EDWIN MARKHAM The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe?...
EDWIN MARKHAM There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
FRENCH PROVERB Could it be fate that brought me here?
Must it be my call?
CARMA We're still tinkering with the lineup. We're pretty much set on Nos. 1-4, but 5-9 is still unsettled...
BRIAN GOUIN If we go 9-1, it's all for naught if we don't beat Rainier Beach.
ANTHONY WILLIAMS Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which
the intention is so clearly evident...
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject...
C.J. SANSOM It is all quiet there. There's nothing new, right now.
ALLARD BAIRD If you give Harland a project that he believes in then he's a bulldog for it. And better 9-1-1 servi...
DAVE TUTTLE I normally eat everything under the sun, but once a year, for a whole month, I eat nothing but fruit...
ELIZABETH MITCHELL Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
ALBERT CAMUS New York is our No. 1 destination.
BRENDA GEOGHAGAN When life is good, enjoy it. But when life is hard, remember:
God gives good times and hard tim...
ANONYMOUS A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which ...
PAULO COELHO There is nothing new about, that we do that quite often.
ALEXEI MISHIN There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
HARRY S TRUMAN When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do...
MALCOLM X Nothing is coming in. Nobody is scouting. The tax incentives are gone for this (fiscal) year, and th...
DAWN KEEZER We have a guideline that requires this rung to be at least 9 1/2 inches wide,
HAL STRATTON When you GIVE under “compulsion” or “Grudgingly” you are giving under the LAW of giving and ...
JOHN PAUL WARREN He enabled us to win with 1-under.
HOWARD WRIGHT They were headed in. He screamed for her, called 9-1-1. It's very sad. We hope he's all right. He's ...
ED HARVEY There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was a freak thing with the sun there on the last play. There's nothing you can do about that.
JAKE WESTBROOK The present tax on retirement funds will be reduced from 18 percent to 9 percent with effect from Ma...
TREVOR MANUEL The number 1 rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
JIMMY BRESLIN You talk about everything under the sun, but you don't solve anything.
STACIA MILLER Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is t...
ECCLESIASTES Be not slow to visit the sick.
ECCLESIASTES It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you sho...
ECCLESIASTES I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: It is because they envy the things their nei...
ECCLESIASTES It gives you life, but you can't hold on to it. You can't breathe indefinitely. We need to surrender...
ECCLESIASTES That which is crooked cannot be made straight and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
ECCLESIASTES
More Ecclesiastes 1:9
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
ECCLESIASTES 11:1 Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is t...
ECCLESIASTES Be not slow to visit the sick.
ECCLESIASTES It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you sho...
ECCLESIASTES I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: It is because they envy the things their nei...
ECCLESIASTES It gives you life, but you can't hold on to it. You can't breathe indefinitely. We need to surrender...
ECCLESIASTES That which is crooked cannot be made straight and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
ECCLESIASTES It's Not Worth It
ECCLESIASTES For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a...
ECCLESIASTES A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
ECCLESIASTES because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised...
ROMANS 10:9 God's grace is sufficient to give you a fOrgIvInG HeArt...
NEHEMIAH 9:31 A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
ECCLESIASTES 4:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giv...
ECCLESIASTES 7:12 If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.
ECCLESIASTES 11:4 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall...
PSALM 91:9-11 Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1.
ELIZABETH 1 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man li...
ECCLESIASTES 11: 7 & 8 Private-sector preparedness is not a luxury; it is a cost of doing business in the post-9/11 world. ...
THE 9 11 COMMISSION REPORT Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they l...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How ta...
JAMES THOMSON (1) So 'ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout
Of petulant capricious sec...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Synods are mystical Bear-gardens.
Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,
And other Members of...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For truth is precious and divine;
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,
Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;
Tho...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) He knew whats'ever 's to be known,
But much more than he knew would own.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Deep sighted in intelligence,
Ideas, atoms, influences.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He knew what's what, and that's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,
'Tis then delightful misery no m...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Nothing's more dull and negligent
Than an old, lazy government,
That knows no interest of stat...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay fo...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The trenchant blade Toledo trusty.
For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself f...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like
a turnip. There is nothing good ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd
The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind:
And some,...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe:
With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,
...
JAMES THOMSON (1) In a cottage I live, and the cot of content,
Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,
Ar...
JOHN COLLINS (1) God never had a church but there, men say,
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
I dou...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick
(Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Like feather-bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature and their stars, to write.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Authority is never without hate.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains
in place while all the lesser star...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fo...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat;
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) While I deduce,
From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,
The symphony of spring.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Let Zephyr only breathe
And with her tresses play.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) For zeal's a dreadful termagant,
That teaches saints to tear and cant.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For now the field is not far off
Where we must give the world a proof
Of deeds, not words.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;
He could distinguish, and div...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The worst of rebels never arm
To do their king or country harm,
But draw their swords to do th...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Through thick and thin.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
Have equal powe...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:
...
JOHN BROWN (1) Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.
JAMES THOMSON (1) H' had got a hurt
O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis true no lover has that pow'r
T' enforce a desperate amour,
As he that has two strings t' ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Look before you ere you leap.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) This was the penn'worth of his thought.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, in an...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) What makes all doctrines plain and clear?--
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which wa...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For his religion, it was fit
To match his learning and his wit;
'Twas Presbyterian true blue;
...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON (1) His fear was greater than his haste:
For fear, though fleeter than the wind,
Believes 'tis alw...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Fear is an ague, that forsakes
And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;
And they'll opine the...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And as the French we conquer'd once,
Now give us laws for pantaloons,
The length of breeches a...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win,
And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin.
JOHN BROWN (1) So justice while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.
THOMAS COGAN (1) He that is down can fall no lower.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
Th...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat
An honest name.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Of evening tinct,
The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.
JAMES THOMSON (1) He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained
The deep vibrations of his witching song.
JAMES THOMSON (1) The oyster-women lock'd their fish up,
And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through...
JAMES THOMSON (1) As you sow y' are like to reap.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Invite the rook who high amid the boughs,
In early spring, his airy city builds,
And ceaseless...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods,
Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,
In joyles...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields;
And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool
Prel...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge,
The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,
A...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Scroundrel maxim.
JAMES THOMSON (1) And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And poets by their sufferings grow,--
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If the husband once give way
To his wife's capricious sway,
For his breeches he next day
...
JAMES THOMSON 1 A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.
JAMES THOMSON 1 Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON 1 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Her polish'd limbs,
Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire;
Beyond the pomp of dress; for ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
And...
JAMES THOMSON (1) He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no;
That would, as soon as e'er she...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The moon pull'd off her veil of light,
That hides her face by day from sight
(Mysterious veil,...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er,
To try one desp'rate med'cine more;
For where your case ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Among the changing months, May stands confest
The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.
JAMES THOMSON (1) 'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allo...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The Roman senate, when within
The city walls an owl was seen,
Did cause their clergy, with lus...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) With books and money placed, for show
Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,
And for his false o...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion,
That grace is founded in dominion.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonse...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours,
Of winter's past or coming void of care,
Well p...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Linnets . . . sit
On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.
JAMES THOMSON (1) A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;
That Latin was no more di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Up springs the lark,
Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;
Ere yet the shadows fly, ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas,
That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,
At once ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Beautiful isle of the sea,
Smile on the brow of the waters.
GEORGE COOPER (1) Think, oh, grateful think!
How good the God of Harvest is to you;
Who pours abundance o'er you...
JAMES THOMSON (1) And though it be a two-foot trout,
'Tis with a single hair pulled out.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift,
To that of life and an immortal soul!
JAMES THOMSON (1) Unconscious humor.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) As quick as lightning, in the breach
Just in the place where honour's lodged,
As wise philosop...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
Whate'er the crabb...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write,
As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
JOHN BROWN (1) Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The stately-sailing swan
Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale;
And, arching proud his neck,...
JAMES THOMSON (1) When autumn scatters his departing gleams,
Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play
The sw...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The swallow sweeps
The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose,
Sir Knight, that I am one of those,
I might suspect, and take...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven,
The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes,
A...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Cry out upon the stars for doing
Ill offices, to cross their wooing.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) This hairy meteor did announce
The fall of sceptres and of crowns.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A grisly meteor on his face.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames;
Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt
In Tw...
JAMES THOMSON (1) With vollies of eternal babble.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) You have a wrong sow by the ear.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He that will win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Great wits and valours, like great states,
Do sometimes sink with their own weights.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) We grant, although he had much wit,
H' was very shy of using it,
As being loth to wear it out,...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on
The mountain's top, his lofty haven,
And all the passengers ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.
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...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:
Some kick'd until th...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than
discover the sense of his heart deserve...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in th...
HEBREWS 1 2 Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
SAMUEL BUTLER 1