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Friend after friend departs;
Who hath not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end.

— 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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Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.

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When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).

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'T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.

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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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