“Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'T is angels' music.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“Where none admire, 't is useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.”
Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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