1st Earl of Mansfield

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    But oh, how slowly minutes roll
    When absent from her eyes,
    That feed my love, which is my soul:
    It languishes and dies.
    John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)

    Were we positive, eager, real—alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.
    —Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)