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One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
Men's language is as their lives.
Men's language is as their lives.
To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells
Ring Sabbath knells;
The sod's a cushion for his pious read more
To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells
Ring Sabbath knells;
The sod's a cushion for his pious want,
And, consecrated by the heaven within it,
The sky-blue pool a font.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
