Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch

At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;

Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch

Till the white-wing'd reapers come!

The Seed growing secretly.

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ALGERNON SIDNEY.  1622-1683.

Manus haec inimica tyrannis

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.[264:1]

From the Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney.