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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"But knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her temperance over appetite, to know / In measure what the mind may well contain; / Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns / Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"First crept / The parsimonious emmet, provident / Of future; in small room large heart enclosed"
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
