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  Sad the case</strong> of those who had the possibilities <br />
of a good and useful existence, but have lived<br />
fatally and hopelessly given up to . . .<br />
sloth, or <br />
flippant pleasure, or<br />
engrossing selfishness.<br />
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Those fugitive, precious moments we are <br />
forgetting and wasting, cannot be recovered. <br />
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<strong>In the great game of existence</strong> many are staking <br />
all and losing all—drifting to hopeless, irremediable <br />
bankruptcy. That is a solemn word—a dreadful <br />
truth—<strong>the irreparable past!<br />
  <br />
  </strong>Death will dissolve many a 'fairy vision' that has lured <br />
and charmed us. Death will sweep down many 'flimsy <br />
cobwebs of earth' that we have laboriously weaved—<br />
<strong>poor tawdry things</strong> we have so often clung to and <br />
clutched!