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How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone.
But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong,-- Like angels' visits, short and brigh...
How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success. -- Lewis Morri
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act. v, Sc. 1...
How fast can a woman go? 68; when she does 69 she blows a rod!
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Verses supposed to...
How forcible are right words! -- Old Testament -- Job vi, 25
How gaily a man wakes in the morning to watch himself keep on dying. -- Henry S. Haski
How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible!
how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap!...
How glorius a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. -- John Mui...
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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