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Companion none is like Unto the mind alone, For many have been harmed by speech,— Through thinking, few, or none. Fear oftentimes restraineth words, But makes not thoughts to cease; And he speaks best, that hath the skill When for to hold his peace. Our wealth leaves us at death, Our kinsmen at the grave, But virtues of the mind unto The heavens with us we have; Wherefore, for virtue’s sake, I can be well content, The sweetest time of all my life To deem in thinking spent.
Companion none is like Unto the mind alone, For many have been harmed by speech,— Through thinking, few, or none. Fear oftentimes restraineth words, But makes not thoughts to cease; And he speaks best, that hath the skill When for to hold his peace. Our wealth leaves us at death, Our kinsmen at the grave, But virtues of the mind unto The heavens with us we have; Wherefore, for virtue’s sake, I can be well content, The sweetest time of all my life To deem in thinking spent.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Lord Vaux (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 600 · printed citation: Lord Vaux · subject: THOUGHT
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