g my will, I should be contented; and when one is
contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to
be desired, there is an end of it.

Part ii. Book i. Ch. 4.

Every one is as God made him, and often-times a great deal worse.

Part ii. Book iv. Oh. 16.

Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human
thoughts.

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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
1554-1586.

_The Defense of Poesy_.

He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old
men from the chimney-corner.

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I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my
heart moved more than with a trumpet.

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_Arcadia_. Book i.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good, or extremely evil.

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They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

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THOMAS HOBBES.
1588-1679.

_The Leviathan_.

Part i. Chap. 4.

For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they
are the money of fools.

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FRANCIS BACON.
1561-1626.

Essay viii. _Of Marriage and Single Life_.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for
they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Essay 1. _Of Studies_.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested.

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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact
man.

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Histories make men wise, poets witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural
philosophy, deep, moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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JOHN MILTON.
1608-1674.

_Tract on Education_.

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant,
it were an injury and a sullennes against Nature not to go out and see
her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

_The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty_.
_Introduction to Book 2_.

A poet soaring in the high reason of his
fancy, with his garland and singing robes, about him.

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Beholding the b