“That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”
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But with that death of mine what life will die? Across the air, I hear my heart's voice cry:
Where dost thou bear me reckless one? Descend!
Such rashness seldom ends but bitterly'
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With might the clouds, and be content to die,
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