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While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
 Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat.
 (Death levels sceptre and the law.)  
 Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat.
 (Death levels sceptre and the law.) 
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
 Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
 Advanced a stage or two upon that road
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 Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
 Advanced a stage or two upon that road
  Which you must travel in the steps they trod. 
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is read more
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains read more
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as read more
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?