Pythagoras Locke Socrates -- but pages might be filled up as vainly as before with the sad usage of all sorts of sages who in his life-time each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about around and underneath" man, except man himself.
Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
Absence - that common cure of love.
For truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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