As if some lesser God had made the world,
And had not force to shape it as he would.
Le monde m'embarrasse, et je ne puis pas songer
Que cette horloge existe et n'a pas d'Horloger.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream
That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Voltaire.
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On which the fabric of our world depends,
One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.
Edmund Waller—Of the Danger His Majesty
Escaped. L. 68.
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CREDIT
Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird
supports its flight; strip him of his plumage,
and you fix him to the earth.
Juntos—Affair of the Falkland Islands. Vol.
I. Letter XLII.
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly.
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He smote the rock of the national resources,
and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth.
He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit,
and it sprung upon its feet.
Daniel Webster—Speech on Hamilton, March
, 1831. Vol. I. P. 200.
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S^ Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Alfieri—Antigone. I. 3.
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D'un delitto 6 chi'l pensa: a chi 1' ordisce
v La pena spetta.
The guilty is he who meditates a crime;
the punishment is his who lays the plot.
Alfieri—Antigone. II. 2.
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Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Alfieri—Oreste. I. 2.
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| text = There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.
E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh.
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L. 870.
A man who has no excuse for crime, is indeed
defenceless!
Bulwer-Lytton—The Lady of Lyons. Act
IV. Sc. 1.
Nor all that heralds rake from ,coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
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Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'eehafaud.
N The crime and not the scaffold makes the
shame.
Corneille—Essex. IV. 3. Quoted by Charlotte Corday in a letter to her father after the murder of Marat.
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| text = <poem>But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
Joseph Fouche. As quoted by himself in his
Memoires, original Ed., 1824. Referring to
the murder of the Due Enghien. Fouche's
sons deny that it originated with thenfather. Quoted by others as "C'est pis
qu'un crime," and "C'estoit pire qu'un
crime." (See Notes and Queries, Aug. 14,
1915. P. 123. Aug. 28. P. 166)
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| text = <poem>Crime is not punished as an offense against
God, but as prejudicial to society.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects.
Reciprocal Duties of State and Subjects.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our
own.
Hawthorne—Marble Faun. Vol. I. Ch.
XXIII.
Deprendi miserum est.
It is grievous to be caught.
Horace—Satires.
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A crafty knave needs no broker.
Ben Jonson. Quoted in Every Man in his
Humour; also in Taylor's London to Ham'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.
Ben Jonson—Volpone. Act III. Sc. 6.
Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever
acquitted.
Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 2.
Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hie diadema.
v Many commit the same crimes with a very
^Hifferent result. One bears a cross for bis
crime; another a crown.
Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 103.
Nam scelus intra se taciturn qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
Jwwaij—Satires. XIII. 209.
