When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.


Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:11

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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!
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