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

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Be our joys three-parts pain!

Strive, and hold cheap the strain;

Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

Rabbi Ben Ezra.

What I aspired to be,

And was not, comforts me.

Rabbi Ben Ezra.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Rabbi Ben Ezra.

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,