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If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.
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The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.
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We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
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Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding.