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But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Pain, Lying, Heart
'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5
But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.