Great Throughts Treasury

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Matthew Green

English Poet and Customs Officer

"Avarice, sphincter of the heart."

"Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence."

"I always choose the plainest food to mend viscidity of blood? To thee I fly, but thee dilute ? through veins my blood doth quicker shoot; and by swift currents throws off clean prolific particles of spleen."

"Fling but a stone, the giant dies."

"Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority."

"They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less."

"Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced."

"Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way."

"Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale."