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Swiftly our pleasures glide away,
Our hearts recall the distant day
With many sighs.
Swiftly our pleasures glide away,
Our hearts recall the distant day
With many sighs.
Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
A friend is a second self.
A friend is a second self.
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows read more
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
There is no evil without its compensation.
There is no evil without its compensation.
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
