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"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."
Christian Moderation. Introduction.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave."
Epistles. Dec. iii. Ep. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be."
Contemplations. Book iv. The veil of Moses.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain