This could but have happened once,— And we missed it, lost it forever. - Robert Browning

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Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be.

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I saw no use in the past: only a scene
Of degradation, ugliness, and tears;
The record of disgraces best forgotten;

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There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

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truth fullness

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