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

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But for the unquiet heart and brain

A use in measured language lies;

The sad mechanic exercise

Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

In Memoriam. v. Stanza 2.

Never morning wore

To evening, but some heart did break.

In Memoriam. vi. Stanza 2.

And topples round the dreary west

A looming bastion fringed with fire.