“The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
Hugh Latimer (1485–1555) British bishop
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“Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath,
The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death;
Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare,
They fall, and leave their little lives in air.”
— Alexander Pope, book Windsor Forest
Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 131.
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