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poses for which he was created. The insects live longer in 

 proportion than such men ; and man s life at best is short 

 but a fleeting day, when compared with the long eternity 

 that awaits him. How strange that he should willingly 

 throw that little life away, and carelessly allow the pre 

 cious pearl, whose value he does not recognize, to be cast 

 away by the rough w^ves of destiny upon the desolate shore 

 of destruction ! 



