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“Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as 't is fair.”
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- quote
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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