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An Epitaph 3 (From The Greek)

by William Cowper

William Cowper

Painter, this likeness is too strong,
And we shall mourn the dead too long.




Quotes of the Day

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

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    Elusive Time
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