"As distant prospects please us, but when near……" — Samuel Garth
"As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air"
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Samuel Garth
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5 Quotes by Samuel Garth
Samuel Garth has 5 quotes on this site.
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Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
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Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from…
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Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
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Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year . . The Rose still…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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