William Browne quotes
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“There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.”
-- William BrowneSource : William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256
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“Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.”
-- William BrowneSource : William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.65
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“The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.”
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“If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”
-- William BrowneSource : Nicholas Breton, George Wither, William Browne (1906). “Nicholas Breton: Pastoral Poems; George Wither: Selected Poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock): Pastoral Poetry”
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“Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.”
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“Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.”
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“But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”
-- William BrowneSource : William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”
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Source : Source: www.slate.com
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Source : Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”
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