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Every one that flatters thee Is no friends in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want.
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   First time he kissed me, but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write, And ever since it grew more clean and white?


— 1850  Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 38.

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Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Bible (NewTestament)

— St Matthew 5:13.

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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect.

john keats

— 1819  'The Fall of Hyperion', l.1-2. (Published1856.)

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This character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.

thomas chalmers

— P. 180. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

henryk sienkiewicz

— 11 July

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Alluring, courtly, comely, fine, complete, Wise, personable, ravishing, and sweet, Come joys enjoy. The Lord celestial Hath given enough wherewith to please us all.

françois rabelais

— Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme

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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

Edward Young

— Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire I, line 171.

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Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.

lord byron

— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 23.

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The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.

henry constable

— Henry Constable, Sonnet, found in Notes to Todd's Milton, Volume V, p. 454 (Ed. 1826).

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Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened Man's forgiveness give and take!

omar khayyám

— Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 81. (later ed). Stanza an interpolation of FitzGerald's own.

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And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill.

Alfred Tennyson

— Alfred Tennyson, Adeline, Stanza 5.

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A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action ... with incidents arousing pity and fear , wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions .


— 1449.b24

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And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.


— Saye, scene vii

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As with new wine intoxicated both They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them breeding wings wherewith to scorn the earth.

john milton

— 1665  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.1007-10.

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That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, wherewith he wont to soar so high.

Edmund Waller

— Edmund Waller, To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing, Epistle XIV.

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