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“Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. iii. 10.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5fd4603b1ac9a74f18c588ba8cdebbd467ce306dda101ec9d7709176eb4e53e3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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