"Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust."

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The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis