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Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause. - William Cowper, Task (bk. II, The Timepiece, l. 231) It is not so with Him that all things knows As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows; But most it is presumption in us, when The help of heaven we count the act of men. - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i) Certain it is that he will steal himself into a man's favor, and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him even after. - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (First Lord at III, vi) Presume not that I am the thing I was. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at V, v) How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence They have their nourishment? - William Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (Helicanus at I, ii)
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