The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended.
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended; An atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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An old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but, in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.
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There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favour, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Half wits talk much, but say little.
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If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted ...
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits.
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
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I won't have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
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