Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun,
More quotes by Samuel Garth
As distant prospects please us, but when near
We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime,
It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
And death in ambush lay in every pill.
Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear:
None please the fancy, who offend the ear.
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