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Rest well content; what matters it to you, whether the dead do live? The quick do surely die. Let argument and praise thunder as they may, and though the loud voice of orthodoxy bid you to the feast of dread, fear and arrogance, take thou no heed. All life and death are but transcending states, all is life and all is death to those who know where death is dead. [10]Thus learn of sleep its opposite awake, from sorrow learn of joy, for between these parallels doth that stream most surely flow, Which is bereft of name, of form, of life, of death! It is that which we know as the infinite, from whence come all, and whither all again do go.