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«It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st»
«Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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exhilarate, languid, restore, rural, sights, Sight and Sound, tone
«Mine is an unchanging love,Higher than the heights above,Deeper than the depths beneath,Free and faithful, strong as death.»
«No dancing bear was so genteel, / Or half so d?gag»
«The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enough;The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.»
«Toll for the brave - / The brave! that are no more: / All sunk beneath the wave, / Fast by their native shore.»
«Can a woman's tender care / Cease towards the child she bare? / Yes, she may forgetful be,/ Yet will I remember thee.»
«Thousands, careless of the damning sin, / Kiss the book's outside who ne'er look within.»
«Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.»
«A life all turbulence and noise may seem,To him that leads it, wise and to be praised;But wisdom is a pearl with most successSought in still water, and beneath clear skies.»
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