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Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Herbert Croly
Alexander Smith
Born:
December 31, 1830
Died:
January 5, 1867
(aged 36)
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