not cheerfully depart, when He summons thee forth, with adoration and thanksgiving for what thou hast seen and heard? — ”Nay, but I would fain have stayed longer at the Festival.” — Ah, so would the mystics fain have the rites prolonged; so perchance would the crowd at the Great Games fain behold more wrestlers still. But the Solemn Assembly is over! Come forth, depart with thanksgiving and modesty — give place to others that must come into being even as thyself.

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Why art thou thus insatiable? why thus unreasonable? why encumber the world? — ”Aye, but I fain would have my wife and children with me too.” — What, are they then thine, and not His that gave them — His that made thee? Give up then that which is not thine own: yield it to One who is better than thou.