The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

T. S. Eliot
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  1. How wild it was, to let it be.

  2. We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine

  3. You are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.

  4. A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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