Christopher Smart Quotes
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There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
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For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.
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Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.
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For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
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Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance…
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For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
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Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.
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And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.
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For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped. For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the…
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