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But the entrances of the greater world are broad and safe, and really yield the fruit of immortality.
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Therefore unless the living pass through the difficult and vain experiences, they can never receive those things that have been reserved for them.
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But now why are you disturbed, seeing that you are to perish? And why are you moved, seeing that you are mortal?
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And why have you not considered in your mind what is to come, rather than what is now present?"
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Then I answered and said, "O sovereign Lord, behold, thou hast ordained in thy law that the righteous shall inherit these things, but that the ungodly shall perish.