One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
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