William Habington quotes
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“Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?”
-- William HabingtonSource : William Habington (1948). “Poems”
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“As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.”
-- William HabingtonSource : William Habington, “Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam”
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“I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.”
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“The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.”
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“No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.”
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“My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.”
-- William HabingtonSource : William Habington (2015). “Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635”, p.120, WESTMINSTER A. CONSTABLE AND CO
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“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.”
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“You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.”
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“Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run”
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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
Source : In New York Times 13 Feb. 1959, p. 21
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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“History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.”
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