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I know few christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... nor has the church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

-John Ruskin

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I Know Few Christians So Convinced Of

John Ruskin

I know few christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... nor has the church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

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What can i do my friends, if i do not know? i am neither christian nor jew, nor muslim nor hindu. what can i do? what can i do? not of the east, nor of the west, nor of the land, nor of the sea, not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens. what could i be?

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Thine eyes i love, and they, as pitying me, knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, have put on black and loving mourners be, looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. and truly not the morning sun of heaven better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, nor that full star that ushers in the even, doth half that glory to the sober west, as those two mourning eyes become thy face: o! let it then as well beseem thy heart to mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, and suit thy pity like in every part. then will i swear beauty herself is black, and all they foul that thy complexion lack

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