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In the turmoil of our lives. Men are like politic states, or troubled seas. Tossed up and down with several storms and tempests. Change and variety of wrecks and fortunes; Till, labouring to the havens of our homes. We struggle for the calm that crowns our ends. --Ford
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear. --Pope.