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Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.

— William Knox

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"Mortality", in Songs of Israel (1824). Abraham Lincoln was fond of repeating these lines.

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