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We have an instinctive fear of death; yet we have a horror of a life / prolonged far beyond the average limit: it is sorrowful; it is pitiful; / it has no attractions.
This world is only a schoolroom for the larger life of the next. Some / leave it early, and some late: some linger long after they seem to have / learned all its lessons. This world is no heaven: its pleasures do not / last even through our little lifetimes.