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GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE AND HASTE, AND REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE MAY BE IN SILENCE. AS FAR AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and agressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the council of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. NURTURE STRENGTH OF SPIRIT TO SHIELD YOU IN SUDDEN MISFORTUNE. BUT DO NOT DISTRESS YOURSELF WITH IMAGININGS. Many fears are borne of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace in God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the council of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. NURTURE STRENGTH OF SPIRIT TO SHIELD YOU IN SUDDEN MISFORTUNE. BUT DO NOT DISTRESS YOURSELF WITH IMAGININGS. Many fears are borne of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace in God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
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Please don't bet doggie style
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foydc
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All in Cowgirl way
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Go on . Do a quiz tonight.
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Go on . Do a quiz tonight.
For your satisfaction? Sorry but don't entertain those that bat for both sides. |
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Twas a joke. U couldn't organise a p1ssup in a brewery
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stewy let the Jehovas in?
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have you got some stronger gear than normal stew
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I don't do religion swifty.
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Don't try and get pally with me Craig. You are the worst Jekyll and Hyde character to grace the forum.
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And you know I'm right. How Gemma puts up with you beggars belief.
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You could have added ...
Never answer the Telephone - or ring anybody else - in order to avoid disturbing verbal conflict. ------------ You will be fine there, though - stewarty b ... As your recently purchased New Phone - is 1.01 to be NOT working now. |
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Working onlooker but not to my satisfaction. Going back on Tuesday as the new one is collected.
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is it a fisher price stew
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why dont you use a banana as a phone stew
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Wackadoodle
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Who wrote that, stewarty b?
Shown it the mrs and she's saying that it's beautiful |
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a bit cringy for an old cynic
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It's Desiderata mecca, and OP would benefit from following the sentiments of the poem (especially posting nonsense to fill the silence and vexations to the spirit (attention seeking).
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Date Joined: 04 Apr 11 Add contact | Send message 24 Mar 23 23:01Joined: 04 Apr 11 | Topic/replies: 9,056 | Blogger: mecca's blog Who wrote that, stewarty b? Shown it the mrs and she's saying that it's beautiful That's open to debate mecca. The original I have says it was found in an old Baltimore church in 1693. That would have to be Baltimore Ireland at a guess. |
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' Desiderata 'was written by the American writer Max Ehrmenn (1872 - 1945 )
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata
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In 1959 or 1960, the Reverend Frederick Kates, rector of Saint Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland, included "Desiderata" in a compilation of devotional materials for his congregation. The compilation included the church's foundation date, "Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore AD 1692," which readers subsequently took, and sometimes still do take, to be the date of the poem's composition.[13][15].
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