Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 19.

Fine by defect, and delicately weak.[321:2]

Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 43.

With too much quickness ever to be taught;

With too much thinking to have common thought.

Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 97.

Atossa, cursed with every granted prayer,

Childless with all her children, wants an heir;

To heirs unknown descends the unguarded store,

Or wanders heaven-directed to the poor.