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Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

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William Law
Age: 75 †
Born: 1686
Born: January 1
Died: 1761
Died: April 9
Theologian
Writer
King's Cliffe
Northamptonshire
Death
Add
Else
Soon
Seems
Equal
Feasts
Nothing
Seem
Littleness
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Pleasure
Enjoyments
Things
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Christian
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