Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.
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A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.
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A heart at leisure from itself,
To soothe and sympathise.
A heart at leisure from itself,
To soothe and sympathise.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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World-wide apart, and yet akin,
As showing that the human heart
Beats on forever as of old.
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As showing that the human heart
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