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Teach us to care and not to care
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.
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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.
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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
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