"What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!"
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"What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!"
"Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion."
"A moment's thought is passion's passing knell."
"It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured."
"There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers."