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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

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Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?---"On death

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If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?