The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.
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Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be
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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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The storm-damaged areas will recover much quicker if the regions that are already up and running do better and benefit from revitalization, ... It's more important than ever before that the rest of the state -- Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria and the agriculture areas -- can thrive so as to lift up the rest of the state.
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