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Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that ...
Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the crevices of the rocks.
O he was fair,
even when I flung his words in his teeth,
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We are powerless,
dust and powder fill our lungs
our bodies blunder
through doors twisted on hinges.
In dis world dey's many folks think dey's alive as ain't alive. Dey's alive accordin' to de whited sepulchers o' de world and dead ...
Our pleasance here is all vain glory,
This false world is but transitory;
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Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree
In the cool of the day, having fed to satiety
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