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For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell. -- John Heywood (c.
1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ix...
For when I was a babe and wept and slept, Time crept.
When I was a boy and laughed and talked, Time walked....
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
-- Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Table-Talk, lxvii...
For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act iv, Sc....
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) ...
For where 's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?
-- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Fifth Day, Part i...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. MAT 6:21
For which cause men may well perceive that the land and the sea are of round shape and form, for the portion of the firmament that shows itself in one country does not show itself in another country.
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it.
-- Luke 14:28...
For who hath despised the day of small things? -- Old Testament -- Zechariah iv, 10

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