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“O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.”

Littles Stills Lying Stars Sleep Towns Silent Christmas Thee Bethlehem Little Towns Dreamless Sleep

Author:Phillips Brooks

“Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.”

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .”

Giving Littles Art Stills Book Soul Age Lying Rooms Wonder Alive Stage Praise Delight Wit Thee Monument Applause Tombs Lodges Chaucer Spenser

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.”

Soul Whole Dream Lying Force Sea Confidence Capacity Thee Trust In God

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.”

Ifs May Lying Term Grace Thee

Author:William Shakespeare

“When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys... The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred... What superstition and fanaticism on every side!”

“If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”

Ifs Men Heart Lying Memories Cold Stones Mark Warm Graves Thee Monument Marble Warm Heart

Author:John Vance Cheney

“Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.”

Ifs Art Lying Learning Riches Thee

Author:John Lyly

“Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain'd to die? Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.”

Men Art Lying Dies Left Wealth Rooms Fruit Quitting Thee Load Alas Thyself

Book:Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse

Source: Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse