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The way we pass a lifetime is to us but as if we were asleep and we
do not remember all that happens but the happy moments. When we
are dead then we see what we have done in a different way.
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Don’t say life is only an empty dream. If our souls stop living and go
to sleep it cannot be so for we would die. The last thing we are to
attain to I think is the grave.
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Your the same as dead when your asleep and things that are making
you pleasant now will one day make you sorry.
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Do not tell me that life is a dream, because when I sleep things will
not be like I think they are.
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This means that you know without being told in rymes, that life and
soul shall die away and be nothing.
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Don’t tell me in sorrowful verses life is only an illusion, the soul is
wicked that slumbers, and things are very deceitful.

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they while their companions slept
Were toiling upwards in the night.
The Ladder of St. Augustine
—HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Great men have not made flights very suddenly. They have slept
with their companions while they were toiling to keep the heights
they had attained.
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The heights that great men have kept out of reach were not attained
by means of sudden flight. While their companions were sleeping
they were up at all hours of the toiling night.

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