He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart and keeps it, has a mind That hungers and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life.
William CowperSource: The Task (1785)
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He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart and keeps it, has a mind That hungers and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life.
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