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• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Rabbi Ben Ezra
• What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me. -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Rabbi Ben Ezra
• Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sing
  Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things....
• Neither trust, nor contend, nor lay wagers, nor lend
  and you'll have peace to your lives' end. -- Ben Frankli...
• In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap xi...
• Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Sonnet lxv...
• Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. -- Ben Frankli
• Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers.
  -- Thomas Warton (1728-1790) -- Written on a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monastico...
• All service ranks the same with God,-- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we
  here is no last nor first. -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Pippa Passes, Part iv...