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Quotes About Decoyed

as i emerge on deck the ordered arrangement of the stars meets my eye, unclouded, infinitely wearisome. There they are: stars, sun, sea, light, darkness, space, great waters; the formidable Work of the Seven Days, into which mankind seems to have blundered unbidden. Or else decoyed.
~ Joseph Conrad
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
~ Samuel Pepys
Death is like the insect Menacing the tree, Competent to kill it, But decoyed may be. Bait it with the balsam, Seek it with the knife, Baffle, if it cost you Everything in life. Then, if it have burrowed Out of reach of skill, Ring the tree and leave it, — 'Tis the vermin's will.
~ Emily Dickinson
Saw a wedding in the church… and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
~ Samuel Pepys
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
~ Samuel Pepys