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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. - Libels [Ballads] Ceremony keeps up all things. 'Tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water. Without it the water were spilt, the spirit lost. - Table Talk [Ceremony] Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points. - Table Talk [Religion] Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world. - Table Talk [Fools] We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth. - Table Talk [Religion] We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them. - Table Talk [Judges] Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming. - Table Talk (p. 157), (ed. 1696) [Religion] 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot; what an uncertain Measure would this be! one Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short Foot, a Third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. - Table Talk--Equity [Feet] Old friends are best. King James us'd to call for his Old Shoes, they were easiest for his Feet. - Table Talk--Friends [Age] Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide. - Table Talk--Judgments [Judgment] Few men make themselves Masters of the things they write or speak. - Table Talk--Learning [Learning] No man is the wiser for his Learning . . . Wit and Wisdom are born with a man. - Table Talk--Learning [Learning] Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is. - Table Talk--Libels [Wind] Marriage is a desperate thing. - Table Talk--Marriage [Matrimony] Philosophy is nothing but Discretion. - Table Talk--Philosophy [Philosophy] The Pope sends for him . . . and (says he) "We will be merry as we were before, for thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world." - Table Talk--Pope [Government] Syllables govern the world. - Table Talk--Power [Language : Words] Never tell your resolution beforehand. - Table Talk--Wisdom [Resolution] Wise Men say nothing in dangerous times. - Table Talk--Wisdom [Silence] Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. - Table Talk--Wit [Wit] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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