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Men do not weigh the stalk for what it was,
When once they find her flow’r, her glory, pass.

— Samuel Daniel Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

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Notes from Wikiquote

1592 & 1594 eds.: "that" for "what"

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The stars that have most glory have no rest.

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The thing possessed is not the thing it seems.

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This is the thing that I was born to do.

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And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.

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To spend the time luxuriously
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