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Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! i. Scott-Bridal of Triermain. Canto I. Canto I. St. 21. Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world.— filed under Pope
of Children. '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.— filed under Foot
Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.— filed under Judgment
X English Dictionary. Syllables govern the world.— filed under Language
Few men make themselves Masters of the things they write or speak.— filed under Leisure
No man is the wiser for his Learning *** Wit and Wisdom are born with a man.— filed under Leisure
Marriage is a desperate thing.— filed under Matrimony
Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.— filed under Philosophy
Wise Men say nothing in dangerous times.— filed under Solon
и. BUNSEN'S Life of Luther. P. 61. Never tell your resolution beforehand.— filed under Resolution
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.— filed under Wit
Syllables govern the world.— filed under Words
On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage. ScoTT-Lady of the Lake. Canto I. Pt. XXI. Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. ScoTT-Rokeby. Canto V. St. 1. Thus pleasures fade away; Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay, And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray; ScoTT-Marmion. Introduction to Canto II. St. 7. Old friends are best. King James us'd to call for his Old Shoes, they were easiest for his Feet.— filed under Affliction