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What does it mean?
World is a painful passage; we are pilgrims; death ends worldly sorrows.
In plain terms
Life is suffering; death ends it.
What can you take from it?
Life is transient; death brings rest.

Where it applies

  • grieving
  • philosophical reflection

Putting it to work

  • coping
  • perspective

Questions to consider

  • How do you view death?

Another view

Some find meaning in struggle.

More from Geoffrey Chaucer

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  3. Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessitee.

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