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... thing in life , and but one , May hope to achieve it before life be done ; But he who seeks all things , wherever he goes , Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets . h . OWEN MEREDITH ( Lord Lytton ) ...
... thing in life , and but one , May hope to achieve it before life be done ; But he who seeks all things , wherever he goes , Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets . h . OWEN MEREDITH ( Lord Lytton ) ...
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... thing which he never knew any one disparage except those who had it not , and he never knew any one make a boast of it ... things Two pairs of upper limbs ; so wings- E'en Angel's wings ! -are fictions . j . AUSTIN DOBSON - A Fairy Tale ...
... thing which he never knew any one disparage except those who had it not , and he never knew any one make a boast of it ... things Two pairs of upper limbs ; so wings- E'en Angel's wings ! -are fictions . j . AUSTIN DOBSON - A Fairy Tale ...
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... things time makes no alteration ; things are still the same they are , let the time be past , present , or to come . Those things which we reverence for an- tiquity what were they at their first birth ? Were they false ? -time cannot ...
... things time makes no alteration ; things are still the same they are , let the time be past , present , or to come . Those things which we reverence for an- tiquity what were they at their first birth ? Were they false ? -time cannot ...
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... things in the world are the most useless ; peacocks and lilies , for instance . h . RUSKIN . The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment ; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul . i . GEORGES ...
... things in the world are the most useless ; peacocks and lilies , for instance . h . RUSKIN . The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment ; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul . i . GEORGES ...
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... things only because his pastor says so , or the assembly so determines , with- out knowing other reason , though his belief be true , yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy . e . MILTON - Areopagitica . Nothing is so firmly ...
... things only because his pastor says so , or the assembly so determines , with- out knowing other reason , though his belief be true , yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy . e . MILTON - Areopagitica . Nothing is so firmly ...
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