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Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.
How fallen, how changed
From him, who, in the happy realms of light,
Clothed with transcendent brightness, read more
How fallen, how changed
From him, who, in the happy realms of light,
Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
Myriads, though bright.
The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
