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The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.
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There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled.
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Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
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It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.