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Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing<br>

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Edward Young

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

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Too low they build who build below the skies.

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Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

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Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

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Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing

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