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What is it you hanker after. Is it bare Existence? Or Sensation? Or Motion? Or Strength, that you may lose it again in Decay? What? Is it the Privilege of Speech, or the Power of Thinking in general? Is any of this Furniture big enough for Desire? If all these Things are Trifles upon the Matter, proceed to something that's worth your while; and that is to be govern'd by Reason and the Deity. And yet you can't be said to value these last mention'd Privileges rightly neither, if you are disturb'd because Death must take them from you. 23