Talk:John Harington (writer)

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• Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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• The wholesom’st meats that are will breed satiety
  Except we should admit of some variety.
     In music, notes must be some high, some base.
  And this I say, these pages have intendment,
     Still kept within the lists of good sobriety,
  To work in men’s ill manners good amendment.
     Wherefore if any think the book unseasonable,
  Their stoic minds are foes to good society,
     And men of reason may think them unreasonable.
  It is an act of virtue and of piety,
     To warn men of their sins in any sort,
     In prose, in verse, in earnest, or in sport.
  • Quoted as one of the "Prelude of Mottoes" in Robert Southey's The Doctor, &c. (1835) vol. 3, pp. v–vi Ficaia (talk) 05:35, 28 July 2025 (UTC)