survey quotes

He that purchases a manor will think to have an exact survey of the land, but who thinks of taking so exact a survey of his conscience, how that money was got that purchased that manor? We call that a man's means, which he hath; but that is truly his means, what way he came by it.

-Donne,John
  Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir  William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.1^2.

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