As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon 't.
Samuel Butler (poet)
For what is worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?
worth money
With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.
money
A skilful leech is better far Than half an hundred men of war, So he appear'd; and by his skill, No less than dint of sword, cou'd kill.
men war
There 's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war.
man peace war
I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower.
fortune power
And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.
force nature
With mortal crisis doth portend My days to appropinque an end.
theend
Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.
Ay me! What perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!
man
He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it; Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made?
This Light inspires, and plays upon The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone, And speaks through hollow empty Soul, As through a Trunk, or whisp'ring hole, Such language as no mortal Ear But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.
light language
men light
Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns.
Love is a boy by poets styl'd; Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
They who study mathematiks only to fix their minds, and render them the steadyer to apply to all other things, as there are many who profess to do, are as wise as those who think by rowing boats, to learn to swim.
boats mind
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