"My sun sets to rise again."
"For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale."
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Source: 'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 7
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