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He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
Approximate author period: c. 909 AD · medieval
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- Sir Henry Taylor
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- Approximate author period: c. 909 AD · medieval
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.
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