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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,-- Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools....
Of all the days that 's in the week I dearly love but one day, And that 's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday.
-- Henry Carey (1663-1743) -- Sally in our Alley...
Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, Line...
Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope.
Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work....
Of all the girls that are so smart, There 's none like pretty Sally.
-- Henry Carey (1663-1743) -- Sally in our Alley...
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avail
o altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise....
Of all the passions that possess mankind, The love of novelty rules most the mind
In search of this, from realm to realm we roam; Our fleets come fraught with ev'ry folly home....
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity 's the straightest.
-- Beaumont and Fletcher -- The Knight of Malta, Act i, Sc. 1...
Of all the people I know, you're one of them.
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
-- Herman Melville...

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