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"From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star."
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"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."
"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
"But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place."
"Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone."
"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."
"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
"The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground."
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"But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty."
"Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship."
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
"So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not with indented wave,Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear,Circular base of rising folds, that toweredFold above fold, a surging maze! his headCrested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;With burnished neck of verdant gold, erectAmidst his circling spires, that on the grassFloated redundant: pleasing was his shapeAnd lovely; never since of serpent-kindLovelier."
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