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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 wives of destiny upon the desolate shore 

 of destruction ! 



