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[Amee D. <aw...@st...>]

Few black swans I must except who, having had the grace to value worldly
vanities at no more than their own price, do, by retaining the
comfortable memory of a well-acted life, behold death without dread, and
the grave without fear, and embrace both as necessary guides to endless
glory.... If we seek a reason of the succession and continuance of
boundless ambition in mortal men, we may add, that the kings and princes
of the world have always laid before them the actions, but not the ends
of those great ones which preceded them. They are always transported
with the glory of the one, but they never mind the misery of the other,
till they find the experience in themselves. They neglect the advice of
God while they enjoy life, or hope it, but they follow the counsel of
death upon his first approach. It is he that puts into man all the
wisdom of the world without speaking a word, which God, with all the
words of His law, promises, or threats, doth not infuse. Death, which
hateth and destroyeth man, is believed; God, which hath made him and
loves him, is always deferred. "I have considered," saith Solomon, "all
the works that are under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and
vexation of spirit"; but who believes it, till death tells it us? It was
death, which, opening the conscience of Charles V. made him enjoin his
son Philip to restore Navarre, and King Francis I. of France to command