Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes a… - Archilochus of Paros

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Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured
dance that orders all our years.

Archilochus of Paros

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Archilochus [Ἀρχίλοχος] (c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC), also rendered as Archilochos or Arkhilokhus, was a Greek lyric poet and mercenary from the island of Paros in the Archaic period.

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Native Name: Ἀρχίλοχος

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especially if they are simple in their ways,
or stupid, or inane in their endless blabber
as old men tend to be.

I pray for one gift: that I might merely touch
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Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years. - Archilochus of Paros

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