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The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow		Friday Apr 25, 2025
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Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. William Dunbar

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	William Dunbar
	William Dunbar (c. 1460 - c. 1520), Scottish poet, was probably a native of East Lothian. This is assumed from a satirical reference in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie , where, too, it is hinted that he was a member of the noble house of Dunbar. Read More

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I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me. Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity. London, thou art the flower of cities all! All love is lost but upon God alone. Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.