The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
John ClareInto the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.
John Clare