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How God ever brings like to like.
How God ever brings like to like.
'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
The east; 'tis time unfolds read more
'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
Defining night by darkness, death by dust.
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.
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
[Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.
At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce:
It's fitter being sane than read more
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.