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  ...Lost,_ Bk. viii., Line 508.
=Words.=
'Tis well said again, And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. 2098 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts, never to heaven go. 2099 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.
Apt words have power to 'suage The tumors of a troubled mind; And are as balm to fester'd wounds. 2100 MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 184.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.   2101 GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iii.
Words, however, are things. 2102 OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. i., Canto ii., St. 6.
=Wordsworth.=
Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? 2103 MATTHEW ARNOLD: _Memorial Verses._
=Work.=
Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. 2104 MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. viii., Line...   Eliot, George

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