Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Tangled
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Scott.—Marmion, Canto VI. Verse 17.
Each morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earn’d a night’s repose.
Longfellow.—Miscellaneous Poems. (The Village Blacksmith.)