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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern
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- Edward Young
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- Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Night thoughts. Night ii. Line 376.
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