Quote#Truth
Choosing each stone, and poising every weight
Quote byAndrew Marvell · 1621–1678
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Miscellaneous Poems (1681), The First Anniversary of the Government under O. C., line 245.
English (original)
Choosing each stone, and poising every weight, Trying the measures of the breadth and height; Here pulling down, and there erecting new, Founding a firm state by proportions true.
— Andrew Marvell
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