A garland of quotations CXXXI

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Is there any cruelty or misery the spheres can inflict that I have not suffered?
Is there any pain or torment my wounded heart has not suffered?
•Babur, Baburnama (1530).

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedO all ye who passe by, behold and see;Man stole the fruit, but I must climbe the tree;The tree of life to all but onely me: Was ever grief like Mine ?•Herbert, The Temple (1633).

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