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Letter "C" » comer
«Great hail! we cry to the comersFrom the dazzling unknown shore;Bring us hither your sun and your summers;And renew our world as of yore;You shall teach us your song's new numbers,And things that we dreamed not before:Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers,And a singer who sings no more.»
«O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.»
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Poet,
Priest)
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Keywords:
comer,
comers,
delve,
delving,
hack,
hacking,
hew,
rack,
sleek,
the rack
«Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.»
«For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.»
«Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca»
Author: George Santayana
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Humanist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Skepticism
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Keywords:
chastity,
comer,
comers,
coolly,
discretion,
nobility,
preserving,
proudly,
ripeness,
shameful,
skepticism,
too soon