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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.[170:1]
Advancement of Learning. Book ii.
States as great engines move slowly.
Advancement of Learning. Book ii.
The world 's a bubble, and the life of man
Less than a span.[170:2]
The World.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust
But limns on water, or but writes in dust.
The World.
What then remains but that we still should cry
For being born, and, being born, to die?[170:3]
The World.
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.
From his Will.
My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.[170:4]
Apothegms. No. 17.
[171]
Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.[171:1]
Apothegms. No. 54.
Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
Apothegms. No. 64.
Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner."
Apothegms. No. 76.
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.[171:2]
Apothegms. No. 97.
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."[171:3]
Apothegms. No. 193.
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
Apothegms. No. 206.
Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
Apothegms. No. 247.
[165:1]
As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crushed or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Goldsmith: The Captivity, act i.
The good are better made by ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Rogers: Jacqueline, stanza 3.
[165:2] Burton (quoted): Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sect. 2, memb. 5, subsect. 5.
[165:3]
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes;
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
Pope: Essay on Man, ep. i. line 125.
[165:4] There are some remedies worse than the disease.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 301.
[166:1] Who are a little wise the best fools be.—Donne: Triple Fool.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.—Fuller: The Holy State. The True Church Antiquary.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.—Pope: Essay on Criticism, part ii. line 15.
[166:2]
Kings are like stars: they rise and set; they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.
Shelley: Hellas.
[167:1] Of similar meaning, "Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought." See Shakespeare, page 90.
[167:2] Every man is the architect of his own fortune.—Pseudo-Sallust: Epist. de Rep. Ordin. ii. 1.
His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 283.
[167:3] Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.—Shakespeare: Henry V. act iii. sc. 6.
[167:4]
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Cowley: The Garden, Essay v.
God made the country, and man made the town.
Cowper: The Task, book i. line 749.
Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes (Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities).—Varro: De Re Rustica, iii. 1.
[168:1] The vicissitude of things.—Sterne: Sermon xvi. Gifford: Contemplation.
[168:2] A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.—Proverbs xxiv. 5.
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.—Johnson: Rasselas, chap. xiii.
[168:3]
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown,
Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
Martial: book iv. 32, vi. 15 (Hay's translation).
I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.
Herrick: On a Fly buried in Amber.
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms.
Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, line 169.
[169:1] As in the little, so in the great world, reason will tell you that old age or antiquity is to be accounted by the farther distance from the beginning and the nearer approach to the end,—the times wherein we now live being in propriety of speech the most ancient since the world's creation.—George Hakewill: An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World. London, 1627.
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?—Pascal: Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum.
It is worthy of remark that a thought which is often quoted from Francis Bacon occurs in [Giordano] Bruno's "Cena di Cenere," published in 1584: I mean the notion that the later times are more aged than the earlier.—Whewell: Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, vol. ii. p. 198. London, 1847.
We are Ancients of the earth,
And in the morning of the times.
Tennyson: The Day Dream. (L' Envoi.)
[169:2] The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.—Advancement of Learning (ed. Dewey).
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.—Diogenes Laertius: Lib. vi. sect. 63.
Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur (The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted).—Saint Augustine: Works, vol. iii., In Johannis Evang. cap. i. tr. v. sect. 15.
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.—Lyly: Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (Arber's reprint), p. 43.
The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is unpolluted in his beam.—Taylor: Holy Living, chap. i. p. 3.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.—Milton: The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.
[170:1] Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.—John Wesley (quoted): Journal, Feb. 12, 1772.
According to Dr. A. S. Bettelheim, rabbi, this is found in the Hebrew fathers. He cites Phinehas ben Yair, as follows: "The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness,"—literally, next to godliness.
[170:2] Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.—Browne: Pastoral ii.
Our life is but a span.—New England Primer.
[170:3] This line frequently occurs in almost exactly the same shape among the minor poems of the time: "Not to be born, or, being born, to die."—Drummond: Poems, p. 44. Bishop King: Poems, etc. (1657), p. 145.
[170:4] Tall men are like houses of four stories, wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished.—Howell (quoted): Letter i. book i. sect. ii. (1621.)
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.—Fuller: Andronicus, sect. vi. par. 18, 1.
Such as take lodgings in a head
That 's to be let unfurnished.
Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 161.
[171:1] The custom is not altogether obsolete in the U. S. A.
[171:2] Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.—Webster: Westward Hoe, act ii. sc. 2.
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.—Selden: Table Talk. Friends.
Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!—Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appeared to be best in these four things.—Melchior: Floresta Española de Apothegmas o sentencias, etc., ii. 1, 20.
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything,—in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.—Shakerley Marmion (1602-1639): The Antiquary.
I love everything that 's old,—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.—Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer, act i.
[171:3] There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.—Montaigne: Of Cannibals, chap. xxx.
[172]
THOMAS MIDDLETON. —— -1626.As the case stands.[172:1]
The Old Law. Act ii. Sc. 1.
On his last legs.
The Old Law. Act v. Sc. 1.
Hold their noses to the grindstone.[172:2]
Blurt, Master-Constable. Act iii. Sc. 3.
I smell a rat.[172:3]
Blurt, Master-Constable. Act iii. Sc. 3.
A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.[172:4]
The Phœnix. Act i. Sc. 1.
The better day, the better deed.[172:5]
The Phœnix. Act iii. Sc. 1.
The worst comes to the worst.[172:6]
The Phœnix. Act iii. Sc. 1.
'T is slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.[172:7]
Michaelmas Term. Act iv. Sc. 1.
From thousands of our undone widows
One may derive some wit.[172:8]
A Trick to catch the Old One. Act i. Sc. 2.
Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.[172:9]
The Family of Love. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Spick and span new.[172:10]
The Family of Love. Act iv. Sc. 3.
A flat case as plain as a pack-staff.[172:11]
The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3.
[173]
Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?
The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3.
As true as I live.
The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3.
From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.[173:1]
A Mad World, my Masters. Act i. Sc. 3.
That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.[173:2]
The Roaring Girl. Act i. Sc. 1.
Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.
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