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“Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave.”
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- Source:
- Mortality.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 076dc6f64c7272cf0a4886110b97d2e80c83a0380839b7a1cc6a2845e9219ea8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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