We ought to keep two bears, and learn to bear and forbear with one another. The cares and labors of the day may carry the thoughts to other objects, even as a finger may turn the needle to the east or west, but no sooner is the pressure removed than the thoughts fly to the Well-Beloved just as the needle moves to its place. We are not permitted to die at our own will. That were suicidal and improper. In a little time—how little a time none of us can tell—we shall be where the inhabitant shall never
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