Quote#Wisdom
I first adventure: follow me who list
Quote byJoseph Hall · 1574–1656
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quoted in John Mason Neale, Hymns of the Eastern Church, 3rd ed. (1870), Preface to the First Edition, p. 18.
English (original)
I first adventure: follow me who list, And be the second Eastern Melodist
— Joseph Hall
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'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife, O, let me lead an academic life; To know much, and to think for nothing, know Nothing to have, yet think we have enow.
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.
A legal thief, a bloodless murderer, A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.
So little in his purse, so much upon his back.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
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