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1655

Momenta desultoria

Constantijn Huygens

LXII. THings temporall, are sweeter in the expectation: Things Eternall are sweeter in the fruition: The first shames thy hope, the second crowns it: It is a vain Iourney whose end affords lesse pleasure then the way.

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