Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.
Sydney SmithAbout author
- Author's profession: Clergyman
- Nationality: english
- Born: June 3, 1771
- Died: February 22, 1845
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Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard...
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