To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

 

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
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Book iii, "Boys at School". Compare: To sigh, yet feel no pain", Thomas Moore The Blue Stocking.

 

George Crabbe

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It is an advantage to have concealed one's opinion; for by that means you may change your judgment of things (which every wise man fmds reason to do) and not be accused of fickleness.

 

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The birds that came to it through the air
At broken windows flew out and in,
Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh
From too much dwelling on what has been.

 

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