If thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrow that thou wouldst forget;
If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills!--No tears
Dim the sweet looks that Nature wears.
--_Longfellow._
2065
How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!
2066
No word He hath spoken
Was ever yet broken.
--_Anon._
2067
Many a word at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.
--_Sir Walter Scott._
2068
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as
to recall a word once spoken.
2069
The unspoken word never does harm.
2070
For want of a word, lives often drift, and remain apart.
2071