"If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon."
"Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event."
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Source: Robert Lowry, William Howard Doane, Ira David Sankey (1877). “Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School”, p.153
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