There is no antidote against the Opium of time, which temporally considereth all things; Our Fathers finde their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our Survivors.
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Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial (1658), Chapter V; Exact wording and attribution checked. Meditation on burial, memory, mortality, and the limits of worldly remembrance; original historical spelling preserved.
- Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial (1658), Chapter V
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