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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

348 Samuel Daniel 1562?-1619 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:348
AUTHOR:Samuel Daniel (1562?–1619)
QUOTATION:As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
To look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1
ATTRIBUTION:History of the Civil War. Book iv. Stanza 84.
 
Note 1.
The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
Edmund Waller: Verses upon his Divine Poesy. [back]