"Pleasure comes, but not to stay; Even this shall pass away."
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Poets from the United StatesJournalists from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesPeople from New York City
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All Things shall pass away, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Theodore Tilton
Theodore Tilton (2 October, 1835 – 29 May, 1907) was an American newspaper editor, poet and Abolitionist.
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