"Nor peace nor ease the heart can know Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too."
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A Prayer for Indifference, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Frances Greville
Frances "Fanny" Greville (c 1724 – 1789) was an Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England.
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