Careful Words

agree (n.)

agree (v.)

Could we forbear dispute and practise love,

We should agree as angels do above.

Edmund Waller (1605-1687): Divine Love. Canto iii.

  Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.

  We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.

Isaac De Benserade (1612-1691): Maxim 347.

Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,

But as the world, harmoniously confus'd,

Where order in variety we see,

And where, though all things differ, all agree.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Windsor Forest. Line 13.