IMMORTAL. etc.

[Paul Johnson]

Aren't we all a little afraid we might get what we deserve, rather than
what we want?

Wilson Gray wrote:

> Well, it does say "*just* reward," which does, indeed, leave open the
> question as to whether that reward will necessarily be "a consummation
> devoutly to be wished."
>
> -Wilson
>
>>
>>
>> Indeed. But that begs the question, is a "reward" necessarily a good
>> thing
>> that, in the words of the immortal bard, is "a consummation devoutly
>> to be
>> wished"? Not, I venture to suggest, when the reward, such as it is,
>> is to be
>> an infernal one." ;)
>> (the other) doug
>>
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>> Isn't this "passed" a shortening of "passed on to his / her eternal
>> reward"?
>>
>> -Wilson
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> --
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
>                                                      -Sam'l Clemens
>
> "Experience" is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it
> again.
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