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• Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered.
  -- Old Testament -- Wisdom of Solomon ii, 8...
• For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone
  he flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land....
• One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh. -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes i, 4
• Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
  -- Old Testament -- Wisdom of Solomon iv, 8...
• The little foxes, that spoil the vines. -- Old Testament -- The Song of Solomon ii, 15
• The fashion of this world passeth away. -- New Testament -- 1 Corinthians vii, 31
• The wind passeth over it, and it is gone; -- Old Testament -- Psalm ciii, 16
• When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
  -- Old Testament -- Wisdom of Solomon vii, 3...
• The land of darkness and the shadow of death. -- Old Testament -- Job x, 21