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Flesh is but the glass which holds the dust that measures all our time, which also shall be crumbled into dust.
Flesh is but the glass which holds the dust that measures all our time, which also shall be crumbled into dust.
Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
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- Author or tradition
- George Herbert
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- Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1593–1632)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 58 · printed citation: George Herbert · subject: Death
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