With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possiblybe on this side of the grave.
Oh how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!
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Oh how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!
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