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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. -

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. – T.S. Eliot

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Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task. – Buddha

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