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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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