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April 10, 2026
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"Lines 1-10"
"Lines 19-22"
"Lines 12-14"
"Lines 1-16."
"The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence."
"Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music."
"Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world."
"Lines 379-380"
"Man is God's image; but a poor man is Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard."
"Be useful where thou livest."
"Lines 307-308"
"Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy."
"Lines 241-242"
"Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer."
"Lines 175-177"
"By no means run in debt: take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty."
"By all means use sometimes to be alone."
"Lines 77-78"
"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby."
"Lines 25-26"
"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee."
"Verse 1 Line 5&6"
"A verse may finde him,who a sermon flies And turns delight into a sacrifice"
"It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom. (Maycock, A L, Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. SPCK, London, 1938)"
"My meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory."
"Do well and right, and let the world sink."
"Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?"
"Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him."
"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises."
"Like summer friends, Flies of estate and sunneshine."
"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie."
"To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise."
"Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it."
"719. One sword keepes another in the sheath."
"714. Comparisons are odious."
"710. Three can hold their peace if two be away."
"707. Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle."
"684. When God will punish, He will first take away the understanding."
"682. One father is more than a hundred schoole-masters."
"678. More have repented speech then silence."
"677. Dry bread at home is better than rost meate abroad."
"676. A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire."
"649. A beane in liberty is better than a comfit in prison."
"The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners."
"Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime."
"Into the woods thenceforth in hast she went, To seeke for hearbes, that mote him remedy; For she of hearbes had great intendiment, Taught of the Nymphe, which from her infancy Her nourced had in trew Nobility: There, whether it divine Tobacco were, Or Panachaea, or Polygony, She found, and brought it to her patient deare Who al this while lay bleeding out his hart-bloud neare."
"Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke."
"Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound."
"And all for love, and nothing for reward."
"How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!"