Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Like our shadows,

Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.[309:1]

Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 661.

While man is growing, life is in decrease;

And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.[309:2]

Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 717.

That life is long which answers life's great end.

Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 773.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.