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Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.
Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five read more
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.
And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty read more
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
 But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
 No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, read more 
 But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
 No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love;
  The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain
   Make Good
    Together there we can begin again
     In babyhood. 
 On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending,
 And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.  
 On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending,
 And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. 
 The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
 Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
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 The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
 Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
   Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,
    The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. 
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.