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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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One wept all night beside a sick man's bed:
At dawn the sick was well, the mourner dead.
—From the Persian.