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Hear then the truth: 'Tis Heav'n each passion sends,
And different men directs to different ends.
Extremes in nature equal good produce;
Extremes in man concur to general use.
Moral Essays, Epistle III. A. POPE.
And hence one master passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Essay on Man, Epistle II. A. POPE.
PAST, THE.
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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To-day, unhappy day, too late.
King Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Imitation of Horace, Bk, I. Ode XXIX. J. DRYDEN.
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard: what's done is done.
Macbeth, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were,