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How God ever brings like to like.

'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

Defining night by darkness, death by dust.

Our similarities are different.

Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel! She, like thee, was forced to bear All reflections, foul or fair. Thou art deep and bright within, Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne; Thou art very frail as well, Frail as flesh is,--so was Nell.

Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.

Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny; Others aver, to him, that Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange! that such high Disputes shou'd be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?

At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone.

Like lips like lettuce . (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]

Like to like.

Comparisons are odious.

Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.