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“How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone. But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong,-- Like angels' visits, short and bright; Mortality 's too weak to bear them long.”
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- Source:
- The Parting.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cfa781d4fe865bf232895eca0a1a87a36218c317f3aeadd24bcad1225222df05
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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