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How Long

Rumi

How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about this harmful world?
The only thing it can take from you is your body.
Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking.




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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero


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    Dirge
    by Herman Melville
    Stay, Death. Not mine the Christus-wand Wherewith to charge thee and command: I plead. Most gently hold the hand Of her thou leadest far away; Fear thou to let her naked feet