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“Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.”

Years Sound Chance Seasons Sight Blessed Green Corners Treasure Stealing Exquisite Lanes Countryside Flowering Pastures Affluent Withering Thrice

Book:A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

“The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Happens Chance He Man Sight Wounded Arrows

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.”

Way Soul Reason Body Seems Names Chance Cases Sight Goods Analogies Contributing

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.”

Should May Light Chance Sun Wise Tomorrow Please Sight Grateful Thee Unexpected Cheer Rays Favour Being Wise Morrow

Author:William Congreve