Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Must love and joy and sorrow learn;

Something with passion clasp, or perish

And in itself to ashes burn.

Hyperion. Book ii.

Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

Hyperion. Book iv. Chap. viii.

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Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.[618:1]

Kavanagh.

There is no greater sorrow