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Everything that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment.

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 15 · 1609

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1609 The Renaissance

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William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 15.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 15, I. 1.

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