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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

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