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'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
To appreciate heaven well
'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
To appreciate heaven well
'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.
Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
A book is the only immortality.
A book is the only immortality.
No, no! The energy of life may be
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
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No, no! The energy of life may be
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,
From strength to strength advancing--only he
His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,
Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
