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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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“The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
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“Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.”
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“What is well done is done soon enough.”
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“And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
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“Night's black mantle covers all alike.”
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“And reads, though running, all these needful motions.”
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“Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth; But after licking, it in shape she drawes, And by degrees she fashions out the pawes, The head, and neck, and finally doth bring To a perfect beast that first deformed thing.”
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“Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Heat considered as a Mode of Motion" (title of a treatise, 1863), John Tyndall.
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“Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes), Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes; Who loving novels, full of affectation, Receive the manners of each other nation.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
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“From north to south, from east to west.”
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“Hot and cold, and moist and dry.”
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“From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.”
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“Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.”
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“With tooth and nail.”
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“'T is what you will,—or will be what you would.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
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“Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils.”
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“Not that the earth doth yield In hill or dale, in forest or in field, A rarer plant.”
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“To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.”
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“For where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?”
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“A good turn at need, At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.”
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“There is no theam more plentifull to scan Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.”
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“Or almost like a spider, who, confin'd In her web's centre, shakt with every winde, Moves in an instant if the buzzing flie Stir but a string of her lawn canapie.”
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“These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.”
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“Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb,—before in ure he put His violent engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th' infested part.”
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“Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.”
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“Which serves for cynosure To all that sail upon the sea obscure.”
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“Turning our seed-wheat-kennel tares, To burn-grain thistle, and to vaporie darnel, Cockle, wild oats, rough burs, corn-cumbring Tares.”
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“Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.”
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“Living from hand to mouth.”
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“Dog, ounce, bear, and bull, Wolfe, lion, horse.”
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“Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.”
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“In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.”
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“In the jaws of death.”
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“Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.”
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“Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought To orient pearls.”
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“Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.”
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“The will for deed I doe accept.”
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“Only that he may conform To tyrant custom.”
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“Sweet grave aspect.”
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“My lovely living boy, My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.”
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“Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.”
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“Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.”
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“Out of the book of Natur's learned brest.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) first seen 1490 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: "The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves", Paracelsus, 1490–1541. (From the Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, …
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“Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.”
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“Through thick and thin, both over hill and plain.”
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“Weakened and wasted to skin and bone.”
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“I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men do play their personage.”
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“Made no more bones.”
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