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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Students today should begrudge every moment of time. This dewlike life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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January 19, 1200
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September 22, 1253
(aged 53)
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