'What is your life?' In reference to its duration. Compute, weigh it. It is unsubstantial, shadowy, fleeting; a vapor that appeareth for a little time, then vanisheth away. We are here to day, tomorrow
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What then is life? To have a being, to breathe, to receive impressions through the channel of the senses,