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O guard thy roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech is but the dial-plate of thought; and every fool reads plainly in thy words what is the hour of thy thought.
O guard thy roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech is but the dial-plate of thought; and every fool reads plainly in thy words what is the hour of thy thought.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Tennyson. · O
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