For this is the only thing, if there be any, which could draw us the contrary way and attach us to life,--to be permitted to live with those who have the same principles as ourselves.
From his personal reflections, contemplating what truly binds one to life.
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But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!
And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!
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