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We live, but a world has passed away With the years that perished to make us men.

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  2. And before you know me gone Eternity and I are one.
  3. Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings.
  4. He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
  5. See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion; See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
  6. The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
  7. The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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