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I count each day a little life,
With birth and death complete;
I cloister it from care and strife
And keep it sane and sweet.

— Robert Service ServiceWise & OtherWise (1942)

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Dignity is a tin god in the temple of bunk.

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Nature is the nest professor in the end.

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Just have one more try - it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

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It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it is the grain of sand in your shoe.

Wisdom is peace, peace wisdom.
Both are born of a humble heart and a nourished gratitude.

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