Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame Earth's highest station ends in Here he lies and Dust to dust concludes the noblest songs
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene prosperity conceals his brightest ray as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.Edward Young
Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts noblyangels could no more.
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Man wants but little nor that little, long.
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The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
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