Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.
Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.48
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