Memento Mori
Acrylic on canvas
12" x 12"
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Acrylic on canvas
12" x 12"
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It is said an Eastern
monarch once
charged his wise
men to invent him a
sentence, to be ever
in view, and which
should be true and
appropriate in all
times and situations.
They presented him
the words: "And this,
too, shall pass away."
How much it
expresses! How
chastening in the
hour of pride! How
consoling in the
depths of affliction!
Abraham Lincoln
September 30, 1859
monarch once
charged his wise
men to invent him a
sentence, to be ever
in view, and which
should be true and
appropriate in all
times and situations.
They presented him
the words: "And this,
too, shall pass away."
How much it
expresses! How
chastening in the
hour of pride! How
consoling in the
depths of affliction!
Abraham Lincoln
September 30, 1859
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