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"Sorrows remember'd sweeten present joy."
Robert Pollok / The Course of Time. Book i. Line 464.
The Course of Time. Book i. Line 464.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane," And played familiar with his hoary locks."
Robert Pollok / The Course of Time. Book iv. Line 389.
The Course of Time. Book iv. Line 389.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in."
Robert Pollok / The Course of Time. Book viii. Line 616.
The Course of Time. Book viii. Line 616.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out."
Robert Pollok / The Course of Time. Book viii. Line 632.
The Course of Time. Book viii. Line 632.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain