“The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come over again.”

Dolcino to Margaret, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819–1875

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