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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

— Henry Ward Beecher Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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