maybe it’s true
things we experience shape us to be the person we are today
make us who we are
a bit tougher,and more used to all feelings life inevitably forces us to thoroughly experience
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Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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