Vain are the thousand creeds That move mens hearts unutterably vain Worthless and withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me. I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter - the Eternity they have entered - where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.Emily Bronte
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Emily Bronte
Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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Were we not friends from childhood?
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Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn;
And lust of fame was but a dream
That vanish'd with the morn:
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