What win I, if I gain the thing I seek A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week Or sells eternity to 'get a toy For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy
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I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.William Shakespeare
All is but toys renown, and grace, is dead The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of
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If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
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Enough; my soul shall then be satisfied.
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That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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