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The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde, The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne.
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I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.

george gascoigne

— "Certayne Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English", from The Posies; pp. 457-8.

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The more hast the lesse speede.

john heywood

— The more haste the less speed.
— Part I, chapter 2.

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Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.

Geoffrey Chaucer

— Book ii, line 470.

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No man is an Iland , intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent , a part of the maine ; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea , Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me , because I am involved in Mankinde ; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee .

john donne

— Modern version: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Meditation 17. This was the source for the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel.

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As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.

thomas hobbes

— The Second Part, Chapter 18, p. 93

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The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

john lyly

— John Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act III, scene 1

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The more hast the lesse speede.


— The more haste the less speed.
— Part I, chapter 2.

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