The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
John ClareAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: english
- Born: July 13, 1793
- Died: May 20, 1864
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It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.
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