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> [Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/most-writers-steal-a-good-thing-when-they-can-and-when-tis-safely-got/)

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## More by Bryan Procter

> [So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/so-mightiest-powers-buy-deepest-calms-are-fed-and-sleep-how-oft-in/)

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> [Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/most-writers-steal-a-good-thing-when-they-can-and-when-tis-safely-got/)

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> [Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/where-are-shakespeare-s-imagination-bacon-s-learning-galileo-s-dream/)

[Bryan Procter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-procter/)

> [How silent are the winds!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/how-silent-are-the-winds/)

[Bryan Procter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-procter/)

> [I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/i-m-on-the-sea-i-m-on-the-sea-i-am-where-i-would-ever-be-with-the/)

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> [Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown; And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/up-and-down-up-and-down-from-the-base-of-the-wave-to-the-billow-s/)

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> [Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his line of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/gamaun-is-a-dainty-steed-strong-black-and-of-a-noble-breed-full-of/)

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> [Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/women-are-so-gentle-so-affectionate-so-true-in-sorrow-so-untired-and/)

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> [The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/the-sea-the-sea-the-open-sea-the-blue-the-fresh-the-ever-free-without/)

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> [The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/the-sea-the-sea-the-open-sea-the-blue-the-fresh-the-ever-free/)

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> [In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/in-the-hollow-tree-in-the-old-gray-tower-the-spectral-owl-doth-dwell/)

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> [I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/i-never-was-on-the-dull-tame-shore-but-i-loved-the-great-sea-more-and/)

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> [Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/love-can-take-what-shape-he-pleases-and-when-once-begun-his-fiery/)

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> [Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/half-the-ills-we-heard-within-our-hearts-are-ills-because-we-hoard/)

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> [Death is the tyrant of the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-procter/death-is-the-tyrant-of-the-imagination/)

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