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We see time’s furrows on another’s brow,
And death intrench’d, preparing his assault;
How few themselves in that just mirror see!

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Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. 1

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While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. 2

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That life is long which answers life’s great end.

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The man of wisdom is the man of years.

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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. 3

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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.

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And all may do what has by man been done.

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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

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Prayer ardent opens heaven.

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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

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To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

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Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her ploughshare o’er creation. 4

Night Thoughts. Night ix. 167.

Note 1.
See Dryden, Quotation 11. [back]

Note 2.
See Bishop Hall, Quotation 2. [back]

Note 3.
See Quarles, Quotation 1. [back]

Note 4.
Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom.
Robert Burns: To a Mountain Daisy. [back]

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