newton: to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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milton: “As children gath’ring pebbles on the shore”, John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book iv. Line 330.
prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious saiynges
This older version appeared in Nicolas Udall’s translation of Apophthegmes, that is to saie, prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious saiynges, 1542, where it reads:
“Which as often as thei see theim selfes to haue the worse ende of the staffe in their cause.“
A Damascene scholar Muhammad Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī once commented:
Consensus has now been reached that it [coffee] is permissible in itself. As for passing it around like an alcoholic beverage, and playing musical instruments in association with it, and taking it from handsome beardless boys while looking at them and pinching their behinds, there is no doubt as to its prohibition
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