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![“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride!-how consoling in the depths of affliction! ‘And this too shall pass away.’ And yet let us hope it is not quite true.” -Abraham Lincoln “The [Stoics] would be so content with the sight of me The snakes would wrap around me and we’d dance across the sea”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/yvzcq2Bshnn35bwpoJDkqsgio1_500.jpg)
“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride!-how consoling in the depths of affliction! ‘And this too shall pass away.’ And yet let us hope it is not quite true.” -Abraham Lincoln
“The [Stoics] would be so content with the sight of me
The snakes would wrap around me
and we’d dance across the sea”
