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— John Selden"He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge."
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.
— Francis Quarles
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