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With Curious Art The Brain, Too Finely Wrought, Preys On Herself, And Is Destroyed By Thought.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
-- Charles Churchill (1731-1764), Epistle to William Hogarth, Line 645
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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.
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And mistress of herself though china fall.
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Apt alliteration 's artful aid.
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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.
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In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought. -- Louis Kronenberge
But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel--must feel themselves.
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