An intuitive truth, which it is proper to detail, is an axiom; which it is needless to detail, is a truism.
~ William Taylor (of Norwich), English Synonyms Discriminated (1813).
A necessary act incurs no blame.
~ William Cowper, The Task (1785). Book VI. The Winter Walk At Noon
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Nothing contents us long, however dear.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from Poems of Passion (1883). The Year Outgrows The Spring
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