"Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde."

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“As lyke as one pease is to another.”

“The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.”

“Lette me stande to the maine chance.”

“Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.”

“He reckoneth without his Hostesse. Love knoweth no lawes.”

“The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.”

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"Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in wha…"

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Literature1925–1954

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