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Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.
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If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in honour's truckle-bed.
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade
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Born:
February 3, 1612
Died:
September 25, 1680
(aged 68)
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