And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
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Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
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The groves were God's first temples.
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
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Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
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