<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416709" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Natural Perversities</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not prone to moralize<br>In scientific doubt<br>On certain facts that Nature tries<br>To puzzle us about,--<br>For I am no philosopher<br>Of wise elucidation,<br>But speak of things as they occur,<br>From simple observation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I notice LITTLE things--to wit:--<br>I never missed a train<br>Because I didn't RUN for it;<br>I never knew it rain<br>That my umbrella wasn't lent,--<br>Or, when in my possession,<br>The sun but wore, to all intent,<br>A jocular expression.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never knew a creditor<br>To dun me for a debt<br>But I was 'cramped' or 'bu'sted'; or<br>I never knew one yet,<br>When I had plenty in my purse,<br>To make the least invasion,--<br>As I, accordingly perverse,<br>Have courted no occasion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor do I claim to comprehend<br>What Nature has in view<br>In giving us the very friend<br>To trust we oughtn't to.--<br>But so it is: The trusty gun<br>Disastrously exploded<br>Is always sure to be the one<br>We didn't think was loaded.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our moaning is another's mirth,--<br>And what is worse by half,<br>We say the funniest thing on earth<br>And never raise a laugh:<br>'Mid friends that love us over well,<br>And sparkling jests and liquor,<br>Our hearts somehow are liable<br>To melt in tears the quicker.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We reach the wrong when most we seek<br>The right; in like effect,<br>We stay the strong and not the weak--<br>Do most when we neglect.--<br>Neglected genius--truth be said--<br>As wild and quick as tinder,<br>The more you seek to help ahead<br>The more you seem to hinder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've known the least the greatest, too--<br>And, on the selfsame plan,<br>The biggest fool I ever knew<br>Was quite a little man:<br>We find we ought, and then we won't--<br>We prove a thing, then doubt it,--<br>Know EVERYTHING but when we don't<br>Know ANYTHING about it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416709" data-title="Natural Perversities de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="I am not prone to moralize In scientific doubt On certain facts that Nature tries To puzzle us about,-- For I am no philosopher Of wise elucidation, But speak of things as they occur, From simple observation. I notice LITTLE things--to wit:-- I n..."></div> </div> </div>

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