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Therefore you also should consider that you and your contemporaries are smaller in stature than those who were before you,
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and those who come after you will be smaller than you, as born of a creation which already is aging and passing the strength of youth."
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And I said, "O Lord, I beseech thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show thy servant through whom thou dost visit thy creation."
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