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Bliss in possession will not last;
Remembered joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
They were, they are, they yet shall be.

— James Montgomery Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

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(For the good man never dies).

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'T is not the whole of life to live,
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Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood.

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