THE NEW CYCLOPEDIA
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Practical Quotations
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ABHORRENCE
The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for.
Boils and plagues
Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen.
***few things loves better
Than to abhor himself.
***more abhorr'd
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
***make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.
ABILITY
For as our modern wits behold,
Mounted a pick-back on the old,
Much farther off, much further he,
Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.
He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve 'em in a trice:
As if Divinity had catch'd
The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd.
I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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