It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce:
It's fitter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
That, after Last, returns the First,
Though a wide compass round be fetched;
That what began best, can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
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Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's
three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.
Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's
three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.
How God ever brings like to like.
How God ever brings like to like.
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
Our similarities are different.
Our similarities are different.
And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
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And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
The problem still for us and all of human race.
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
