Awake Before Quotes by Christopher Smart

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• For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.
• For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
• There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
• Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.
• Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And…
• For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
• For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
• Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.

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