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Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.

— François de Malherbe

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To will what God doth will, that is the only science
That gives us any rest.

But she bloomed on earth, where the most beautiful things have the saddest destiny;
And Rose, she lived as live the roses, for the space of a morning.

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